Division Manager at NeoComet, KFF Food & Beverage's spirits distribution arm, Tony Mazloum, told Executive that although standard
blended whiskey continues to outsell other whiskey categories, the company has started to invest more in high-end and premium brands.
When a
blended whiskey does list an age, each individual malt and grain whiskey must be at least as old as the age listed.
As for
blended whiskey, it must contain at least 20% straight whiskey in combination with neutral grain spirits, colors and flavors.
This purchase transaction, valued at approximately USD65m, includes the brands Wolfschmidt vodka, Calvert (Lord Calvert Canadian, Calvert Extra, and gin), Bellows (
blended whiskey, Bourbon, gin, rum, Scotch and vodka), Dark Eyes vodka, Canada House Canadian and Tempo Triple Sec.
Kilbeggan, a patent still
blended whiskey, is being promoted, like Tullamore Dew, as all-Irish.
How can a category that is the third largest among total distilled spirits (vodka and cordials are both bigger), that represents more than 11% of total liquor consumption and that accounts for more volume than Scotch and American
blended whiskey combined, have an identity crisis?
Hotel News Now spoke to three hoteliers as to why they decided to go asolo.a Whiskey Jeremy Hopkins, GM of Londonas independent AthenA[bar]um Hotel, with 164 guestrooms, claims his hotelas Whisky Bar, which has more than 300 aexpressions,a has Londonas largest selection of single malts and
blended whiskeys. Scotland is the most represented nation, but there are also whiskeys from more unlikely sources such as Finland, France and The Netherlands, and earlier this year it produced its own signature blend named The AthenA[bar]um.
WELSH livestock farmers must produce "single malts" rather than "
blended whiskeys" to generate decent profits.
The two parties were believed to have been close to a deal after agreeing a valuation of EUR30 million for the Irish company which produces a range of popular branded single malt and
blended whiskeys.