Blended Malt Scotch Whisky

Blended Malt Whisky is now the classification for a marriage of single malts from more than one distillery

Before the great Cardhu debacle.

There where Single Malts - Blends - Vatted Malts

Single Malts - A bottling of malt whisky from just one distillery

Blends - Small amounts of different single malts (as above) bulked out with the cheaper to produce and neutral tasting grain whisky Cheaper the whisky the more grain whisky used.

Vatted Malts - Made up of just single malts from more than one distillery. No grain whisky involved

Easy to understand? Yes

However because Cardhu muddied the waters and changed the Cardhu 12 year old single malt to a "Pure Malt" (as it was made up of single malts from more than one distillery ##). And only made a subtle label change.

The debate has been about what to call Vatted malts. Those in the know have decided that Vatted malts should be now called Blended Malts.

See the confusion with Blends?

I think that the use of the word "blends" with Vatted malts is more confusing as it has always been associated with the cheaper grain based whisky blended together.

It would have been better to have stayed the same with Vatted malts as it is exactly what it says on the bottle. or use Pure malt with no mention of blends.

Any way there are some great Vatted malts. oops! sorry !! Blended Malts. These are single malt whiskies that have been carefully married together to create wonderful whisky tasting styles.

## This was due to the Cardhu Distillery production not being able to match consumer demands, so it was decided to add a similar styled malt from another distillery.