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The Bottling
Bottling at Signatory Only the Glenfiddich and Springbank Distillery possess their own bottling facilities. All other distilleries ship their casks to the big bottlers in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Perth. A speciality under the bottlers are the independent bottlers like Signatory, Gordon & MacPhail and William Cadenhead. They buy their casks at the distillery or on the free market and mature them sometimes for an additional time in their own or other warehouses. Later on they are bottled by themselves. Each casks contains a really pure and unique single malt whisky. The bottles are marked on the label with the following information:
In accordance with the wine industry you end up with bottles, which taste differently from year to year and from cask to cask. Also the alcoholic strength is varied by the independent bottler. The range starts from 40% over 43% and 46% up to the original cask strength which varies from cask to cask. Some independent bottlers only clean their whiskys from bigger wood pieces (Wm. Cadenhead). Other bottler swear on a thoroughly chill filtering to remove also the smallest solid particle in the whisky. Unique whisky characters also appear by this different cleaning philosophies. |
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