Which is more scarce?
A wine that takes 3 years to make.
A whiskey that takes 15.
Wine and whiskey are both low time preference beverages. More time in the barrel should mean more scarcity, but it d...
Yeah, no.
Whiskey flavour depends not only on the grain, how it was ground and roasted, the yeast used to ferment it, and the temperature it was fermented at, but also the characteristics of the still it was distilled in. Companies expanding production or replacing still-heads go to great lengths to replicated the original, right down to dents from mishandling.
Cheap blended whiskeys are replaceable, of course, but so are cheap blended wines.
(I had a job in a building that was a former distillery, and I read way too much of the history of the place while standing around waiting for meetings lol)
Whiskey flavour depends not only on the grain, how it was ground and roasted, the yeast used to ferment it, and the temperature it was fermented at, but also the characteristics of the still it was distilled in. Companies expanding production or replacing still-heads go to great lengths to replicated the original, right down to dents from mishandling.
Cheap blended whiskeys are replaceable, of course, but so are cheap blended wines.
(I had a job in a building that was a former distillery, and I read way too much of the history of the place while standing around waiting for meetings lol)
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