After the success and controversy caused by last years seminar we want to bring it back bigger and better with a breakdown of where flavor comes from and why age is just a number, it doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the contents of your bottle of whisky. It’s an age-old question: when it comes to spirits, does older mean better? This seminar will challenge even the most seasoned palates to answer that question tasting some of the rarest and unique whiskies from Diageo’s warehouses in Scotland many of these whiskies have never been tasted by anyone outside of Diageo before. The Diageo Whisky team, including those behind of some of the most iconic single malts from Talisker and Lagavulin, will be joined again by World-renowned author Dave Broom to lead a blind tasting of whiskies with vastly varying ages from Diageo’s stocks including liquid that has never been offered to the public before. Attendees will hear how single malts and blends have evolved since the beginning of the 20th Century through to the modern day by changes in production, through to the corks used. They will also learn how multiple flavors from different types of casks make up what we know as a single malt, as they taste the whiskies. The panel will ask participants for their opinions of each, before the grand revealing of the names and, more importantly, their ages. Attendees will discover what their favorite whisky was, followed by an opportunity to ask questions about each. Will the older whiskies live up to the hype? There were some real revelations last year and this year will be no exception.

1. The Blind(er) truth about
aging Whisky.
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2. The Blind truth about
aging Whisky.
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4. whisky #1

7. whisky #2

8. Single Grain Scotch Whisky
The unsung Hero

9. William of Orange – the inventor of grain whisky …

10. And his first grain whisky distillery …

11. SINGLE GRAIN SCOTCH WHISKY:
Distilled for over 250 years in Scotland
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Traditionally enjoyed in Scotland’s Central Belt, where it’s mostly made
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Since 1832 distilled mostly in traditional Coffey Stills
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Key component of world-famous Blended Scotch Whiskies such as
Johnnie Walker, Dewars, Chivas Regal, J&B and Buchanan’s for last 150 years
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Production strictly regulated by law for over 100 years
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One of the five legal categories of Scotch.
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A distinct texture and flavour

12. THE SCOTCH WHISKY
REGULATIONS
Single Grain Scotch Whisky can only be made with natural ingredients:
wheat (sometimes rye or maize), malted barley, water and yeast
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No additives are allowed during the distillation process
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ABV must be less than 94.8% – clearly differentiating it from
highly-rectified ‘neutral grain spirit’
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Finally, the whisky must be matured in oak casks in Scotland
for a minimum of three years
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Single Grain Scotch Whisky has the nose, flavour and character of whisky,
though in a less pronounced way than some more robust single malts

13. “It is an acquired taste for a man to drink Islay pure, or Campbeltown
pure, or Glenlivet pure; but by mixing those whiskies in certain
proportions you make them much more palatable and pleasant, and
produce a better article.
…If you unite different characters of whisky, if you make a blend of say five
fine malt whiskies, without grain, unless they have been blended for a very
long time together, you can almost detect the different distilleries they
came from…
[But] If you put in a very small quantity of grain into your blend you at
once marry them, and you cannot detect the difference in the slightest…”
JAMES GREENLEES, 1891

14. Grain whisky was at the centre of the ‘what is whisky’ debate of 1908-09

16. whisky #3

17. THE INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER .1
FULL PANEL

21. whisky #4

22. THE INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER .2
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23. THE INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER .2
FULL PANEL

24. whisky #5

25. KILLER GRAPH AND MATURATION
DAVE

26. Age = Number
Maturity = character

27. Flavour
Time
Distillery Character

28. Active Cask

29. Distillery Character
Flavour
Time
Knackered Cask

30. No age statement = creative freedom?

31. whisky #6

32. THE EMERGENCE OF AGE STATEMENTS
NICK

33. Anyone who doubts the age of Mackie’s White Horse Whisky is
requested to take a dram …

34. “Age” was part of a sustained campaign by blenders to build the reputation
of the Scotch Whisky category in the early twentieth century

35. Some used age statements to win the trust of consumers

39. whisky #7

40. Cliché & Rules V Enjoyment
DAVE & GERRY

42. Johnnie Walker Select Casks
Rye Finish. 46%abv

44. Port Dundas Grain 18
yrs old. 56.5% abv

46. Benrinnes 21 56.9%abv

48. Caol Ila New Make.
68.9%

50. Knockando 23 yr.
49.4% abv

52. Brora 35 year old.
48.6% abv

54. Talisker Skye.
45.8% abv

55. Discussion Q&A

56. The Blind truth about
aging Whisky.
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•Ewan : @ewanmorganEwan : @ewanmorgan
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