Celebrating the last word expression of Scotland’s whisky heritage captured by means of a Japanese lens
ARDRAY joins Edrington UK’s portfolio of Scotch Whiskies.
fifth June, London: Beam Suntory, world chief in premium spirits and producer of a few of the foremost whiskies, has unveiled its newest creation ARDRAY® – an beautiful new interpretation of blended Scotch whisky. Balancing Scotland’s distinctive terroir and long-standing craft custom with the precision and artistry of Suntory’s award-winning Japanese blenders, ARDRAY guarantees a recent perspective on the excellence of blended Scotch and is about to spice up the class. The brand new product joins Edrington UK’s portfolio of Scotch whiskies.
Beam Suntory’s Chief Blender for Scotch, Calum Fraser in partnership with Suntory’s mixing group, examined almost 200 completely different whisky mixtures earlier than arriving on the ultimate concord of flavours that make up ARDRAY. The splendidly balanced blended recipe interweaves a few of Scotland’s best, most complicated signature malts and grain whiskies collectively to an optimum exact ratio. The result’s a whisky designed to problem preconceptions, treating each malt and grain whiskies as equals to create a whisky that’s actually better than the sum of its elements.
With inspiration from historic mix kinds and the imaginative and prescient of Suntory’s founder Shinjiro Torii, ARDRAY celebrates the hunt to reimagine the historic excellence of blended scotch and encourage a better appreciation for the artwork of mixing. 100 years in the past, impressed by conventional Scottish whisky, Torii-San envisioned a Japanese method to create a refined, refined, but complicated whisky that might go well with the fragile palate of the Japanese. With this outstanding mix we honour Torii’s quest, from a reinterpretation of Scotch for the Japanese palate to ARDRAY: a brand new, elegant interpretation, designed to have a good time the excellence of blended Scotch Whisky,
Constructed on the premise that blended whisky is an artwork type that deserves each respect and reappraisal, every batch is exactly engineered to realize the identical concord between malt and grain whiskies every time. By retaining a proportion of every batch, the group mix this with the subsequent batch and harmonise the flavour of the whisky throughout the batches.
Calum Fraser, Chief Blender for Scotch, feedback: “In creating ARDRAY we have now mixed an distinctive number of the perfect Scotch whisky has to supply with the inspiring expertise of Suntory’s mixing group to create one thing new, refreshing and thrilling. The time, care and a spotlight to element taken to supply each malt and grain whiskies from a few of Scotland’s most famous distilleries has allowed us to discover lots of of blends of Scotch malt and grain whiskies to realize ARDRAY’s optimum steadiness of multi-layered flavours. Pushed by the will to make sure the true fantastic thing about this mix is larger than the sum of its elements. ARDRAY guarantees a wealthy and complicated style, with a particular concord of flavours: a light, gently floral, and citrusy fruitiness, with a vanilla custard creaminess and a wealthy, silky mouthfeel and prolonged aftertaste that’s unmatched.”
