Bottling
With single malts, the now properly aged spirit may be “vatted”, or “married”, with other single malts (sometimes of different ages) from the same distillery. The whisky is generally diluted to a bottling strength of between 40% and 46%.
Occasionally distillers will release a “Cask Strength” edition, which is not diluted and will usually have an alcohol content of 50–60%.
Many distilleries are releasing “Single Cask” editions, which are the product of a single cask which has not been vatted with whisky from any other casks. These bottles will usually have a label which details the date the whisky was distilled, the date it was bottled, the number of bottles produced, the number of the particular bottle, and the number of the cask which produced the bottles.
