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Originally Posted by Graf Paper
As for the Japanese whipping Scotland, you have to remember that "Scotch" can only be made in Scotland. It's the same as all the difference between Champagne and "sparkling wine". Champagne can only bear that name if it comes from the grapes and wineries of the Champagne region of France. So that contest was bogus!  |
No, the yearly contest is about "single malts", and other destillations and mixtures, note they also voted a best Blend. And that both are not exclusive Scottish labels, but simple describe the number of destillation cycles. Most Irish whiskys are destilled three times, and thus most of them are said to be much milder than Scotch. I tried only a few Irish ones, but they were much milder than any Scotch I ever had indeed. Jameson 1780 I liked best, its the only one that kept on my memory.
The German article where I read about it said the Japanese man producing Yoichi came to Europe and studied here, and raised a fascination for Scotch. He went to Scotland and learned and absorbed everything he could learn about Scotch. He married a Scottish girl, I think she too was from a family associated with whisky-production. He packed together all the info he could get and his wife, went back to Japan, and started to destill himself. In other words: the Scots were beaten by their own knowledge, so to speak.
Never allow Japanese to have a look inside. First they copy it - than they improve it!
It was like this with cars. With cameras. With consumer electronics...