After reading about IoJ Superstition here, I purchased a bottle on Tues. The label leads me to believe this is a vatted malt, not a single malt. To wit: "... the union of two distinct styles of IoJ single malt, one strong and peaty ..."
I really like this whisky, and believe that it is indeed a nice balance of peat and malt, but am curious about it's true provenance.
Can someone please enlighten me?
Thanks
Every distillery bottling is a vatting of different casks from the same distillery.
Glenfiddich 12y is a vatting of 80% baourbon cask and 20% sherry casks I have been told.
Isle of Jura Superstition is a vatting of "normal" Isle of Jura and then some of the more peaty stuff the have started making recently. The peaty Isle of Jura they haven't been givin a separate name like the have done at many other distilleries (Octomore, Port Charlotte, Moine, Longrow, Ledaig, Brechin, Croftengea....) The Peaty Isle of Jura in Superstition is much younger than the rest of the content thus the no agement on the bottle. There's not too much peaty Isle of Jura in Superstition but it gives the whisky a nice balance compared to other IoJ. I reckon most of the content is at at least or around 10y's old
MacDeffe
Single malt = single distillery. Vatted malt = multiple distilleries.
Aaron Couts wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@waimea.local:
Ah, another bit of understanding emerges from the darkness.
Thank you.
Yes, but the usual process of blending or mixing different casks on one single distillery to produce, let's say for instance a standard 10yo official bottling that does not vary too much from batch to batch, is also technically a vatting. Still, the result will be a single malt, just not a single cask bottling.
So when IoJ "unites" two different styles of their own whisky to produce the Superstition, then you can definately speak of a vatting, like Steffen here does. And it is still a single malt.
I believe it was Steffen in an earlier posting here that infirmed us that the SWA now - probably to clear up matters... - has decided to use the term "blended malt" instead of "vatted malt" from now on when vatting of malts from different destilleries are concerned.
I hope this didn't contribute to total confusion, Chas : )
Gunnar
"Gunnar Thormodsaeter" wrote in news:423c0149$ snipped-for-privacy@news.broadpark.no:
No, actually things are becoming clearer. I now understand the difference between "single malt" in which all the whiskys come from a single distillery (such as IoJ Superstition, "vatted or blended malt" in which the whiskys come from multiple distilleries (such as in Compass Box Eluthera), and "single cask" in which the whisky comes from a single cask (usually denoted by a cask and bottle number on the label).
Thank you all for contributing to my whisky education.
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