The Scotch whisky market is dominated by blended whisky with a market share of roughly 90%. But most whisky magazines and websites focus mainly on single malt. And this site is no exception. Currently, I have rated over 130 Scotch whiskies, and only 4 of them are blends.
I would be very interested in your position on blends. Do you avoid them like the devil avoids holy water? Or do you actually like blended whisky?
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I’m not afraid to order a JW Black at a bar (or drink it at home from time to time). It’s quite nice, actually. I also enjoy my Black Bottle 10 year. Finally, I find Teachers drinkable, and it’s quite young.
As to my own opinion about blends: I haven’t found a single NAS Scotch blend yet that I liked. I do like the JW Black as well and also was quite pleased with the Whyte & Mackay 19yo.
“Do you avoid them like the devil avoids holy water?”
For the most part I do avoid blends, mostly because my whisky drinking time is limited and I prefer to spend my time and money drinking single malts. That said, I have enjoyed a few blends and have a few in my cabinet. Chivas – The Century Of Malts is an outstanding blend of a hundred single malts. You’d think it would have been a muddled mess, but it was expertly blended and is delicious. I only have one bottle left of this special, long out of production bottling. When I travel you might find me ordering a dram of Black Bottle, or a Japanese blend when I can find them.
Forget about the Johnny Walker’s –all of them are crap to me, with the green label being the only respectable exception.