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[Ivor the Engine]

BENMORE PROFILE​

BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY​

Benmore has been a reasonably successful blend, the sales of which are now focused on the Philippines and Thailand. It was created by Benmore Distilleries Company, the one-time owner of four distilleries including Dallas Dhu, whose malts were used as the base of the Benmore blend.

In 2011 its present owner, Diageo, created a special Benmore Four Casks blend for Thai and Philippine whisky drinkers. It is aged in a combination of ex-Bourbon, Sherry, charred and refill casks, and filled into a smart embossed bottle featuring a stag. Its palate offers dried fruits, plenty of sweet vanilla and a faint whiff of smoke.

So what's Scottish about it?

 

[merlin]

SALES of Benmore are focussed on Thailand and the Philippines, but the company (Diageo) remains Scottish, and includes Bell's among its most popular labels. As for other labels, they also produce Blair Athol, J&B, plus single malts including Cardhu, Talisker, Mortlach.

Most of us will remember Dimple Haig and VAT 69 (the former as prized for those who used the bottle in which to save sixpences as for the contents!) They may have been absent from British shelves for many decades, but they are still available in other parts of the world.

Benmore continues to be described as SCOTCH whisky, indicating that it is still distilled in Scotland.

 

[Yorky]

So what's Scottish about it?

The stag?

.........they also produce Blair Athol.............

Does anyone remember Atholl Brose?

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[nomad97]

So what's Scottish about it?

BENMORE HISTORY​

Benmore was ‘the first of three new distilleries in Campbeltown,’ wrote Alfred Barnard after his great whisky tour in the 1880s. It was built in 1868 by the big Glasgow blender, Bulloch Lade, which went bankrupt in 1920. The distillery then became part of Benmore Distilleries Company Ltd, also from Glasgow, and operated until 1927 when it closed for good.

The company also bought Lochindaal in Port Charlotte on Islay in 1920 and a year later added Dallas Dhu on Speyside. Presumably, the Benmore blend was created around this time and included malts from all three distilleries, though only Dallas Dhu was ever mentioned on the label.

By 1929 the Benmore Distilleries Co. and its eponymous blend had been absorbed into the Distillers Company, the forerunner of Diageo.

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And Diageo distilleries account for 1/3 of the total production of Scotch Whiskies.

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DIAGEO PROFILE​

Diageo is headquartered in Park Royal, London, but has offices in some 80 countries and its worldwide reach is attested by the fact that it is active in around 180 territories.

In terms of Scotch whisky, Diageo operates 28 malt distilleries, accounting for nearly one-third of the industry’s total capacity, along with Scotland’s largest grain distillery at Cameronbridge. The company’s leading brand is Johnnie Walker; the best-selling blended Scotch in the world, but it boasts other high-ranking blended brands such as J&B and Bells, along with an array of respected single malts, including Cardhu, Talisker, Mortlach and The Singleton.

In other drinks categories, Diageo is represented by Baileys Irish Cream, Smirnoff vodka and Guinness stout – all best-sellers in their respective sectors. The company also holds a 34% stake of Moët Hennessy, the drinks division of LVMH, whose portfolio embraces Hennessy Cognac and the leading Champagne brands of Moët & Chandon and Veuve Clicquot.

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They also produce @gotlost's favourite tipple, Baileys Irish Cream.

 

[Coffee]

AA meetings are held on Monday evenings.

 

[Rice]

AA meetings are held on Monday evenings.

Was that a friend that told you that ?

 

[Cent]

AA meetings are held on Monday evenings.

They'd do better to hold the meetings on Friday and Saturday nights. Just saying.

 

[Surin]

I'm not an alcoholic because I don't go to meetings.