That final maturation gives the whisky a smooth feel, making it the perfect cocktail base. This blend from Master Blender Stephanie Macleod is a marriage of 40 whiskies that are vatted and finished in Caribbean rum casks. Rum cask finishing is nothing new, but it is all the rage. Blind Scotch Taste Test - Which 12-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky Is Best?.The Best Bottles Of Scotch Whisky Between $50-$60.We Blind Tested Blended Scotches In The $40 Range And A Clear Winner Emerged.Our Favorite Scotch Whisky At Every Price Point From $30 To $500.A Blind Ranking Of Affordable Blended Scotch Whiskies.Accessibility and affordability were not a factor - this is just about “best.”Īlso Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Scotch Whisky Posts of 2021 Not a bad time to be a fan of the famous tipple from Scotland.Īs with our bourbon list of the year’s 50 best, we’re looking at one major factor for these scotches: Did they taste good? Beyond that, these needed to be 2021 new releases or 2021 versions of classics. We got a new Talisker 30 release for the first time since 2017, Diageo dropped a whole new line of special releases, and Islay’s Laphroaig and Ardbeg continued to wow with new drops. Before we dive in, it should be said that 2021 was a good year for Scotch whisky.
Whether we’re talking blended scotch or single malts, this stuff can get spendy pretty quickly.Ĭost aside, there were a lot of great releases this year that we got to try and we’re eager to share the best of the bunch with you. The biggest barriers are picking which cool new bottles to mix in with your rotation of classics and, of course, the price point. Finding great scotch to savor isn’t particularly hard.
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