#Buchanan Black and White Scotch Whisky

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SiscoVanilla Presents Dr. No (1962) Part III. Never let it be said that Bond only drinks martinis. Here Bond (Sean Connery) is hanging out at Puss Feller’s place when he notices that his picture is being taken without his permission. While he waits for Quarrel to bring the offending shutterbug to the table, Bond is enjoying himself some Buchanan's Black and White Scotch Whisky neat. 

This scotch whisky was popular here in the United States from the 1930's until the mid 1970's. It stood out due to its distinctive label which had a black and a white Scottish terrier on the label. You can read about it in detail on my post Ian Fleming’s Dr. No (1962)

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The 20 Most Popular Scotch Whisky Brands in the World for 2021

Popularity is a subjective topic open to interpretation, especially regarding Scotch whisky brands, but if sales data is anything to go by, there are 20 clear winners.

Data shared by The Spirits Business shows that Johnnie Walker remains the most popular Scotch whisky label, with more than double the number of cases sold in 2020 compared to Ballantine’s, its closest competitor.

Grant’s, William Lawson’s, and Chivas Regal rank third, fourth, and fifth place, respectively. Black & White and William Peel follow, Label 5 and Dewar’s are neck and neck behind, and J&B rounds out the top 10.

Diageo-owned White Horse was by far the biggest mover of the year, selling 2.1 million cases, a jump of 18.9 percent. The label is buoyed by a stellar reputation in Brazilian, Japanese, and Russian markets.

Pandemic-related disruptions to bars and restaurants combined with a trade war that increased tariffs on exports to the U.S. negatively impacted the Scotch industry last year. Exports were down 23 percent, amounting to a drop of $1.5 billion, and only a handful of the top 20 brands experienced year-to-year growth. With tariffs temporarily rescinded and bar businesses reopening around the world, numbers are expected to rebound in the coming months.

Ranked by the number of 9-liter cases sold, Scotch lovers can see how their favorite brands rate in the list below.

The 10 Most Popular Scotch Whisky Brands in the World 2021

Johnnie Walker (14.1 million cases)

Ballantine’s (7)

Grant’s (3.6)

William Lawson’s (3.3)

Chivas Regal (3.2)

Black & White (2.9)

William Peel (2.8)

 Label 5 (2.6)

 Dewar’s (2.6)

J&B (2.3)

White Horse (2.1)

 Bell’s (2.1)

 Passport (1.8)

Sir Edward’s (1.8)

Buchanan’s (1.5)

Teacher’s Highland Cream (1.4)

100 Pipers (1.3)

Clan Campbell (1.3)

Glenfiddich (1.2)

The Glenlivet (1.2)

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1968 Liquor Ad, Black & White Buchanan’s Blended Scotch Whisky

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Review #205: Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 year old

40% ABV, E150a, chill-filtered Producer: Diageo Plc.

This review is part of a series of Blended Scotch reviews.

One of the most iconic names in the world of whisky, Johnnie Walker is not only the best selling whisky worldwide but also one of the oldest whisky brands. Its origins go back to John Walker, a wine and spirits trader and grocery store owner from Kilmarnock, Scotland. Born in 1805, Walker lost his father at the age of 14, and to make ends meet, the family sold the Walker’s farm and instead purchased a grocery store on the High Street in Kilmarnock. John was put in charge of the wine and spirits segment and from about 1850, he began to blend his own whisky, Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky, which he made to order for the customers of the grocery store. 

John Walker passed away in 1857, and it was his son Alexander who is largely responsible for commercializing the family whisky blending business and establishing the Walker brand, initially called Walker's Old Highland Blend. In 1860 Alexander introduced the trademark square bottle, with the purely practical purpose of being able to fit more bottles into the same space, and reducing the risk of glass breakage. The same year, the iconic diagonally applied bottle label was established. By 1862, the company was selling some 450,000 litres of whisky annually, and in 1880 the company opened a sales and marketing office in London. 

Alexander Walker passed away in 1889, and the business was taken over by his sons Alexander II and George Walker. In 1893 the company bought Cardow distillery (today called Cardhu), and the distillery’s malt whisky soon became a cornerstone in the Walker’s blends. Between 1908 and 1909 the company undertook a major rebranding of the company and its products, changing the name to ‘Johnnie Walker’. At the same time, the then three bottlings were renamed to White (6yo), Red (10yo) and Black (12yo) Label, and the brand logo, the Striding Man, was developed by illustrator Tom Browne, resembling John Walker in traditional, upscale attire.

In 1923, the Johnnie Walker company went public, being the biggest producer of Blended Scotch at the time, and two years later it merged with Buchanan-Dewar and Distillers Company Ltd. (DCL). DCL became United Distillers in 1986 after it was acquired by Guinness. In 1997 Guinness/UD merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo Plc., forming the largest spirits producer in the world.

The Johnnie Walker brand today consists of a large range of bottlings, most of them named after the colour of their respective label. Starting with the entry-level Red Label, followed by the 12 year old Black Label, the extra-peaty Double Black, the 15 year old Green Label, the sole blended malt in the range and also the only to be bottled at slightly higher strength of 43% ABV. Next on the ladder is the Gold Label Reserve, followed by the Johnnie Walker Aged 18 Years, formerly known as Platinum Label, and finally the premium-end, yet no-age-statement, Blue Label. The range is completed by a number of less regular, special releases and a number of super-premium editions. 

As mentioned above, Johnnie Walker Black Label goes back to 1909, when Johnnie Walker’s “Extra Special Old Highland Whisky”, was rebranded. It is a blend of reportedly about 40 whiskies, 35 single malts and 5 single grains. All whiskies in the blend are aged at least 12 years. The dominant single malt comes from Cardhu, with Caol Ila and Talisker providing the peaty components.

Eye: The immediately recognizable square bottle with the diagonal label undoubtedly has a certain elegance to it. The screw cap is to be expected in this price range, and so is the orangey tinge of the “colour adjusted” juice. Colour wise, the whisky is deep gold. Nose: Resinous and floral with orange zest, heather honey, pine needles, fudge, vanilla, ozone, icing sugar, violet and the faintest touch of peat smoke Palate: Quite gentle and fruity at first, red apples, peach, kumquat then getting spicier and more sherried with raisins, ginger, chilli and wood spices. The peat is much more pronounced than on the nose, but still quite soft. Finish: Medium length, getting drier with lingering peat smoke and oak tannins. Verdict: Despite it’s mass-produced image, I really like the Johnnie Walker Black Label. Sure, it is polished and engineered for the mass market, but it is very well balanced and enjoyable neat, with the light to medium peat providing a nice bit of depth. 82/100

Other people’s reviews of Johnnie Walker Black Label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YV4T4jwhM

http://thewhiskeyjug.com/scotch-whiskey/johnnie-walker-black-review

http://scotchnoob.com/2012/11/19/johnnie-walker-black-label-12-year-blended-scotch

https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/scotch-whiskey/whiskey-review-johnnie-walker-black-label

https://jason-scotchreviews.blogspot.com/2009/08/johnnie-walker-black-label.html

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Review #201: Black & White

40% ABV, E150a, chill-filtered Producer: Diageo Plc.

This review is part of a series of Blended Scotch reviews.

Established in 1884 by James Buchannan, Black & White Blended Scotch is one of a number of iconic Scotch whisky brands, that date all the way back to the whisky boom of the late 19th century. Born in Canada in 1849 to Scottish parents, Buchannan grew up in Larne in Northern Ireland, before beginning his working life as an office clerk in Glasgow at the age of 14. In 1879 he moved to London to work for the whisky blending company Charles Mackinlay & Co., and just a short five years later, he started his own blending business, after realizing that there was a shortage of light, unpeated whiskies in the English market. 

With the help from Glasgow blenders W. P. Lowrie & Co, he set about to create a whisky that was designed specifically to suit the English palate at the time. Initially incorporating malt whisky from Dalwhinnie, Clynelish and Glendullan, “The Buchanan Blend” was an instant success, and was soon chosen as the house whisky by the Members Bar at the House of Commons in London. In honour of this prestigious new client, Buchanan changed the name of his blend to “Buchanan’s House of Commons Finest Old Highland Whisky” and marketed it in a black bottle with a striking white label. Buchannan soon noticed that, thanks to this presentation, his whisky was frequently referred to as “the black & white whisky", and in 1904 officially adopted “Black & White” as the name for his whisky. By 1909 Black & White had become the best-selling Blended Scotch in England and was being exported into many markets around the world.

With the consolidation in the Scottish whisky industry following the Pattison crisis at the end of the 19th century, the rise of Distiller’s Company Ltd. (DCL) became an increasing threat to the business, and in 1915 James Buchanan & Co. merged with John Dewar & Sons to become Buchanan-Dewar Ltd. Despite an immediate expansion of the joint venture with the acquisition of Port Ellen and Lochruan and shortly later Benrinnes distilleries, the company was taken over by DCL in 1925. By that time, Buchannan himself had all but withdrawn from the business, having been knighted in 1920, and elevated as 1st Baron Woolavington into the House of Lords in 1924. Sir James Buchannan passed away in 1935 at the age of 85.

DCL became United Distillers in 1986 after merging with Guinness, and following another merger with Grand Metropolitan in 1997 finally became Diageo Plc. The Black & White brand is still owned by Diageo today, and is available in many countries around the world, including the UK after a long absence, selling about 1.4 million cases per year globally. The brand consists only of the eponymous Blended Scotch bottling, a fairly basic and somewhat old fashioned light, unpeated whisky with a high grain whisky content.

The brand’s mascot is a pair of a Scottish Terrier and a West Highland White Terrier. Conceived by James Buchanan himself in the 1890s, allegedly after returning home from a dog show, the black and white terriers started to feature heavily in the brand’s advertisement after the brand had become part of DCL. Today, the two puppies are inseparably linked with the brand and appear on the label of every bottle of Black & White. 

Eye: Green bottle with screw cap and the iconic B&W label featuring the famous black Scottie and white Westie. The whisky itself is yellow gold -1 in colour. Nose: Sharp and spirity with lime, cereal, saw dust, cardboard and chilli heat. Palate: Light bodied, medium sweet with citrus notes, some ripe fruit, icing sugar, ginger, simple syrup, rancid butter and sharp young spirit. Finish: Short, turning drier with the faintest touch of peat smoke and a slight metallic aftertaste courtesy of the young grain component. Verdict: Pretty much what you would expect from an entry-level, light blended Scotch, that is made from pretty young spirit with a high grain whisky content. One-dimensional and spirity, it is just about neat-enjoyable, but much better suited in a cocktail or with a mixer. 75/100

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Review #189: Glentauchers 2010 5 yo Càrn Mòr Strictly Limited

46% ABV, natural colour, non-chill-filtered Distillery: Glentauchers Distillery, Speyside, Scotland Producer: Morrison & MacKay Ltd.

Glentauchers distillery was founded in 1898 by James Buchanan & Co, during the height of the whisky bubble at the end of the 19th century. Located in the north eastern part of the Speyside region, in the neighbourhood of Auchroisk and Strathisla, Glentauchers was designed and built under the supervision of the famed distillery architects Charles Doig & Son of Elgin. It was constructed by its founders to provide fill malt for the production of Buchanan’s Blended Scotch, one of the most popular brands of blended Scotch at the time. Due to its striking presentation in a dark glass bottle with a white label, Buchanan’s was frequently referred to as “the black and white whisky” by its drinkers, and Buchanan & Co adopted the name “Black & White” officially in 1902. The brand of course lives on to this day, nowadays under the ownership of Diageo. 

Despite the collapse of the Scottish whisky industry shortly after the distillery’s opening, Glentauchers survived the crash fairly unscathed and, following the merger of Buchanan’s with Dewar’s in 1915, the joint company Buchanan-Dewar’s was taken over by Distillery Company Ltd in 1925. DCL went on to become one of the precursors of today’s Diageo, that formed when DCL successor United Distillers merged with Grand Metropolitan in 1997. 

During the 1910′s, the distillery briefly experimented with continuous distillation of malt whisky, by adapting a pot still to have a constant influx of wash. The experiment was however abandoned shortly after, when tightened whisky regulations made it impossible to market the result as malt whisky. The distillery was renovated extensively in 1966, as well as expanded from two to six stills, and a few years later, in 1969, the on-site floor maltings were closed. 

In 1985 Glentauchers fell victim to the whisky slump of the 1980′s, and was mothballed by DCL. Deemed surplus to requirements by its owners, the distillery was sold in 1989 to one of the company’s competitors, Allied Distillers. Production resumed in 1992, and Glentauchers malt became a key component in Ballantine’s Blended Scotch. During that time, the only ever official release of Glentauchers, a 15 year old bottling, became available, but was discontinued again a few years later. Following the hostile takeover of Allied Distillers by Pernod Ricard in 2005, Glentauchers is today part of the Pernod Ricard stable, and its whisky continues to be used mostly for the production of blends. Although there are no official bottlings of Glentauchers available at the moment, there are quite a number of single malt releases by independent bottlers, particularly Gordon & MacPhail, who have acted as the semi-official bottlers in the past.

This bottling of Glentauchers single malt has been released by independent bottler Morrison & MacKay Ltd from Perth, Scotland. The company was founded in 1992 under the name John Murray & Co Ltd, and initially produced a Scotch whisky liqueur by the name of Columba Cream, before branching out into the trading of Scotch whisky. Today the company produces, beside a number of whisky and cream liqueurs, a blended malt whisky by the name of Old Perth, as well as the Càrn Mòr range of independently bottled single malt Scotch whiskies. The Càrn Mòr range itself is split into “Strictly Limited”, with mostly younger single cask as well as small batch bottlings, and “Celebration Of The Cask”, a more premium oriented range of older aged, numbered, cask strength single cask bottlings.

The Glentauchers in this review is from the Càrn Mòr Strictly Limited range. It was distilled in 2010, and bottled in 2015 as a 5 year old whisky. It was drawn from a single sherry puncheon that yielded 931 bottles. The whisky is bottled at 46% ABV, is not chill-filtered and natural in colour.

Eye: A plain looking and unostentatious clear glass bottle with all the important information on the label. The whisky is deep gold in colour. Nose: Quite pungent with camphor, conifer, sour cream, curry leaf, mandarin juice, morello cherry, dried apricot, raisins and yeast. Palate: Tart and sherry-forward with dried fruit, lemon and lime, red wine, furniture polish, dark chocolate, wood tannins and quite some spirity bite. Finish: Medium long with lasting tannins, cigar tobacco and a slight metallic note towards the end. Opens up nicely with a good splash of water. Verdict: For a five year old, this whisky really is phenomenal. Yes, there is a certain degree of immaturity, but the amount of flavour and complexity the sherry cask has imparted on the spirit in such a short amount of time is simply astonishing. It would be easy to mistake this for a 15 year old whisky. Plus, it ticks all the right boxes bottling wise. 84/100