Female: But it’s more than just trying different brands of whiskey it’s also about trying different ways of consuming it, a little bit of water, a little bit of ice.
Male: Yes.
Female: And you’ve kind of experimenting to see what works for you.
Male: Very much, and so, you know, we have different wines that’s more than just the double width, we have the signature. It’s a different way of using the barrels during that duration that creates a slightly different flavor more on the best quality kind of a vanilla side and also rum case which is like a whiskey which finished off with Jamaican rum case.
Female: That’s the last seven months and when you say finished off you mean that it’s that last short period of time.
Male: Yes, yeah, otherwise if we make it longer of the drum case as four month finishing in this Jamaican rum case. If it’s longer than that then we end up having too much of our, a powerful rum character in the whiskey. Of course, we don’t want to do that because we want to have best of everything.
Female: Very nice, it’s very lovely. Now you are specifically also a scotch whiskey. So what does it mean to be a scotch whiskey?
Male: Well scotch, the word scotch is only allowed to be used as a term with whiskey that’s produced in Scotland.
Female: Is there more to it than just that, I mean is there more to a scotch whiskey than just simply being made in Scotland.
Male: If you want to put scotch on your bottle that just to be made in Scotland just simple as that. So if you're producing an Irish whiskey or American whiskey, Canadian whiskey it can never be scotch because it’s not made in Scotland.
Female: Are there any other particular traits that it kind of tend to be the norm in Scottish whiskey’s in a scotch whiskey like are they always single malts, so they are always only made with barley or do you never use corn or the other things devoted to give its character.
Male: Now if you look in the bottle here it’s got single malt and single malt means it’s the product of the one distiller just like our own vineyard.
Female: Yes.
Male: Whereas you can actually have worked all blended malts which would be a few single malts blended together. Or you can have blended scotch whiskey which would be a mixture of two different types of whiskey. Grain whiskey which is made from wheat and then blended into that many different single malts. So the grain whiskey is cheaper to produce. It has a little bit rice flavor than malt whiskey but usually forms the bulk of every blended whiskey that we knew of.
Female: And something interesting now that the grain was something other than the barley, so if I’m drinking a malt whiskey, I’m only having barley, malted barley.
Male: That’s correct. Also it’s worth mentioning that you know if somebody has some kind of wheat’s allergy which many people do, gluten allergy, then stay away from blended whiskey’s because the blended whiskeys will have grain whiskey that was made from wheat.
Female: There you go, there are some message that’s key if you have gluten issues only drink single malt.
Male: Well that’s it and that’s the reality because we often receive some emails and letters about people who are asking how safe is it because I have a gluten allergy which whiskey would be best for me to drink. And we have to go for malt whiskey because there isn’t gluten in it but there is with the blends.
Female: It’s something I’ve never considered but it’s an interesting piece of information.
Male: Yeah.
Female: Thank you very much for walking me through of a single malt scotch whiskey.
Male: You health a “slangivar” which means a good health from the Gaelic language”.
Female: With “Var” or “Bar”.
Male: “Var” V
Female: “Slangivar”, good health to you.
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