Yet the sisters are changing their roles of ambassadors for single cask, single malt whiskies.
Glenfiddich is the world's most awarded single-malt Scotch whisky, having claimed more big-time international medals since 2000 than any other single-malt Scotch.
Ferrand, whom they bought out, was located in Grande Champagne, the most prestigious of the six cognac districts. (Champagne refers to chalky soil, also found where the sparkling wine of the same name is made.) That lucky happenstance gave Andreu and Gabriel the idea of creating a single-district cognac, similar to the single-malt Scotch brands like Macallan and Laphroaig that revitalized the Scotch business in the 1980s.
At Benromach, also just outside of Forres, enjoy a tasting tutorial with a pour of the award-winning, richly-flavoured Benromach Single Malt in the old Drier House, now the Malt Whisky Centre.
At the 2012 World Whiskies Awards, for example, Suntory's Yamazaki 25-year-old was voted World's Best Single Malt, while Nikka won the top spot in the Blended Malt category.
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The internationally-celebrated label is known for its classic single malt whisky, with notes of butterscotch, shortbread and lemongrass.
This is a sweet to enjoy straight, unembellished, the way you might a complex single-malt Scotch.
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The new plant is bottling Johnnie Walker, Old Parr, Dimple, Cardhu and The Singleton single malt.
If it is winter time, I would like Macallan 12 single malt Scotch or Grand Marnier.
Break out the single malt, the most unpredictable golf tournament of the year is about to begin.
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My nose is, as of now, nowhere near as refined as the 21-year veteran of single malt.
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In 2008, Nikka's 1987 Yoichi was named the world's best single malt at the World Whiskies Awards.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a blended whiskey, too, and better by far to my taste than any single-malt.
Make sure you know your office rules before you purchase that bottle of Glenfiddich single malt for the boss.
The Triple Smoke is a tasty American single malt whiskey with a golden colour and a peaty butterscotch flavour.
This is what distinguishes single malt whisky from brandy, cognac and other "tipples".
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In 1884, she expanded and built a new distillery, tripling the output of Cardhu single malt whisky within a year.
But let's get back to why more and more people are willing to spend so much for good single malt.
This drive is probably from non-Scots marketing or accountants, people who obviously do not know what single malt really means.
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At the bar, set in the middle of this garden, I sit one night sipping a glass of Hakushu single malt.
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Five generations later, the Grant family still runs Glenfiddich, and production methods for the single malt scotch have not changed either.
The menu is divided into several categories, including rare and single malt, Lowlands, Highlands, Speyside, Isle of Islay, Cambelton, Island, Irish, American and Canadian.
Due to the distiller's emphasis on driving premium brands, in the US, Glenlivet single malt was up 21%, while Jameson rose 24%.
Glen Ord produces spirit for Diageo's portfolio of blended Scotch whiskies, as well as for The Singleton of Glen Ord single malt.
What is an interesting single-malt scotch to bring to a tasting party?
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And the art collector himself, drinking single-malt scotch, wearing Lobb loafers, lounging on a Michel Frank sofa in his second home in Aspen.
It said sales of its Islay Single Malt increased by 12% with the Japanese malts, Yamazaki and Hakushu, selling well in the UK and Europe.
Sure, I turn to other outlets to release stress exercise, meditation, single-malt scotch but like an email newsletter from a travel site, it just keeps coming back.
At the bar you can purchase glasses, starting from roughly 500 yen, of every Yoichi whisky produced on the premises -- including the powerful and rare Yoichi 20-year single malt.
We at Forbes.com decided to help out by conducting an exhaustive survey, the results of which are my highly personal, totally subjective list of the best single malt Scotch whiskies.
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