Blended whisky gets a seriously bad rap — call time on Single Malt snobbery, and stock your home bar with this modern blended whisky that equals far more than the sum of his parts…

In the age of the Single Malt, you’ll be hard pushed to find anyone who would freely admit that their favourite sipper is of the blended variety. While blended whisky continues to be a top-selling category, we all agree that ‘pop-ular doesn’t necessarily mean ‘good. However, below is a dram which looks beyond the dross repetitiveness of it all. It shows how blended whisky is more than the bottle your dad kept (but never drank) at the back of a cupboard. It proves that the category isn’t stuck in the past and is realizing its modern-day potential. It’s time to move beyond the Single Malt. As open-minded whisky lovers, we’re listening…

Chivas Regal XV (a.k.a. 15-year-old) is a refined, fruity and velvety interpretation of the Chivas Regal house style. The taste is incredibly smooth and fruity with flavours of poached pears intermingled with butterscotch and caramel toffees all rolled up in a wonderful velvety texture. The finish is rounded off with a touch of vanilla.

To Chivas Regal this is not only an innovation but … an opportunity existed in a segment they hadn’t quite capitalized for a while now – an abyss that laid between its 12 and 18-year-old expressions. There you have it. Next time you encounter blended whisky snobbery, here is a shining example to hit them with (not literally… that would just be mean)