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Cardhu 12 Year Old Pure Malt

Cardhu 12 Year Old Pure Malt

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Indulge in the smooth taste of Cardhu 12 Year Old Pure Malt. Crafted with expertise, this whisky boasts a rich and refined flavour that is sure to please any palate. Experience the perfect balance of sweetness and smokiness in every sip. Elevate your drinking experience with Cardhu.

History making infamous Blend.

Cardhu were the first distillery to use the term "pure malt" to describe a blended malt. 

This was something done for marketing reasons, making customers believe the whisky was not a blend.

Due to this misinformation, the term "pure malt" was banned from being used to describe a blended scotch whisky. 

Cardhu is the Speyside home of Johnnie Walker, and the distillery contributes much of its production to the world famous blend.

So much so in fact that the distillery bottling was changed to a vatted "pure malt" for a brief period in 2002 to ease pressure on its stock, but quickly reverted back to a single malt in 2004 following widespread criticism

The incident saw the rewriting of the rulebook for single malt whisky, and the birth of the term "blended malt," adding some infamy to the Cardhu history books in the process.

This bottle is from that infamous 'pure malt' phase and is an interesting piece of whisky history. 

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