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Scotch whisky, often simply called Scotch, is malt whisky or made in Scotland. Scotch whisky must be made in a manner specified by law. For example, all Scotch whisky must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years. Many Scotch whisky drinkers refer to a unit for drinking as a dram.
There are over 120 distilleries in Scotland. They range in size from small, producing as little as 600 litre per year, to large, producing as much as 10,500,000 litre per year.
Some distilleries are:
- Caol Ila Distillery
- Tullibardine Distillery
- Glenrothes Distillery
- MacDuff Distillery
- Tomatin Distillery
- Edradour Distillery
- Pittyvaich Distillery
- Glen Scotia Distillery
Scotland was traditionally divided into four scotch whisky regions: The Highlands, The Lowlands, The Isle of Islay, and Campbeltown. Due to the large number of distilleries found there, the Speyside region is now also recognized as a distinct region. The whisky-producing islands, other than Islay, are not officially recognised as a distinct region but are considered a subregion of The Highlands.
Most malt distilleries sell a significant amount of whisky by the cask for blending, and sometimes to private buyers as well. Whisky from such casks is sometimes bottled as a single malt by independent bottling firms. These are usually labelled with the distillery's name, but not using the distillery's trademarked logos or typefaces. An "official bottling" by comparison, is from the distillery (or its owner). Many independent bottlings are from single casks, and they may sometimes be very different from an official bottling.
For a variety of reasons, some independent brands do not identify which facility distilled the whisky in the bottle. They may instead identify only the general geographical area of the source, or they simply market the product using their own brand name without identifying their source. This may, in some cases, be simply to give the independent bottling company the flexibility to purchase from multiple distillers without changing their labels.
Some of the many independent bottlers are:
- Adelphi
- Berry Bros. & Rudd (Berry’s)
- Cadenhead’s
- Scotch Malt Whiskey Society (SMWS)
- Douglas Laing and Hunter Laing
- Gordon & MacPhail (G&M)
- Ian Macleod
- Mackillop’s Choice
- Malts of Scotland (MoS)
- Morrison and MacKay
- Signatory