J&B Rare Blended Scotch Whisky, 70 cl

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In 1962 the company amalgamated with four others to form International Distillers and Vintners Ltd (IDV). A famous and award winning Spanish liqueur, Licor 43, as the name suggests, brings together 43 different ingredients. Backed by a syndicate, Eddie's plan was to copy McCoy and ship goods from Canada and England to outside the Rum Line where yachts would meet the ships to take the illicit liquor ashore. Dried herbs and sea air with unusual flavors of buckwheat, bitter almond, and white pepper over a slight graininess in the texture.

Dark whisky was often caramelised to hide the taste of illicit still production and inadequate maturation while Cutty Sark whisky was pale in colour, light in style, so considered the 'real McCoy'. The new Coffey stills were not only more efficient and produced much larger quantities of spirit than the traditional pot stills (used to make malt whisky) but the grain whisky the Coffey stills made was much lighter in style.Today, the company has four offices: the head office in St James's Street, a further office in London's Golden Square, and sales offices in Edinburgh and Hong Kong.

Brooks hears of Andrew Usher, an Edinburgh Spirit merchant, who likes to experiment and was the first person to commercially blend whisky. As the aphid was reaping destruction across Europe's vineyards so it was also becoming more fashionable to drink Claret, the English name for red wine from Bordeaux. Justerini arrived in London at a time when the city was recovering from centuries of plague, war and famine. The fact that America was under Prohibition made this an audacious, potentially foolhardy plan but he set sail for America. A long fruity finish is exceptional amongst others in its class, with currant and citrus notes lingering longest of all.

Many enjoy Stone's on its own or over ice, but it is most famously drunk as a 'Whisky Mac' when mixed with whisky. uk accepts no liability for inaccuracies or misstatements about products by manufacturers or other third parties.