Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a blended whiskey, too, and better by far to my taste than any single-malt.

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Then he covers every top whisky producing country in depth, especially Scotland, which he breaks into no less than 16 single malt regions, plus blended Scotches, then Ireland (whiskey), Japan, Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, India, and Australia.

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It is the only pure Irish pot still whiskey available in the U.S. Unlike the vast majority of Irish whiskies, it is entirely made from malted and malted barley, while almost all other have the addition of grain-whiskey, one of the same key differentiators between single malt and blended whiskies.

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Sales of less-expensive blended Scotch were flat, while sales of single malts grew at a 7% rate and sales of superpremium Irish whiskey soared by 44%, albeit from a far smaller base.

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