Cardhu 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whiskey 700mL

Cardhu 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a much-loved single malt, Cardhu is an easygoing, charming Speysider. With clean, crisp oak and sweet malt evoking flavours of honeyed flapjacks and home-made caramel squares, this is one for the sweet-toothed among you.

Cardhu is an exponent of the soft, sweet, approachable Speyside style and is Diageo's best-selling single malt with a huge following in France and Spain, the latter of which accounts for 75% of volume sales.  This popularity, combined with a rumoured shortfall in mature stock, gave rise in 2003 to a notorious episode in the distillery's history when Diageo began selling a 'pure' malt under the name of Cardhu in the same packaging as the previous single malt expression.

This 'pure' malt was believed to include spirit from up to four other distilleries as well as Cardhu. Cue an almighty uproar, with questions asked in Parliament, Diageo vowing to stand firm and the rest of the industry threatening legal action against Diageo for misleading customers and devaluing the status of single malt whisky.  Thankfully the scale of this hullabaloo was sufficient to force Diageo into withdrawing the Pure Malt version of Cardhu (which has now become something of a collector's item), and re-instating the brand as a single malt, to general relief.