Blended 40 Year Old Whisky (Defilement)

Technicalities are important to the Defilement range. Take this 40 year old blended whisky right here, for example. If you let whisky from a certain famous origin mature in a cask for many, many years, its ABV will eventually reduce down below 40%, meaning it’s technically no longer a whisky from that certain famous origin, it is a “spirit drink”. However, if you blend this spirit drink with other whiskies of that certain famous origin at a higher strength and bring it back over the 40% ABV threshold, it’s technically a whisky again, albeit NOT of said certain famous origin. […]