Sietseus schreef:En nog een typfoutje: Highland Park is een Orkney Single Malt Whisky, geen Highland
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Piet schreef:Ai Sietse, typfoutje, wat heet
Dat Highland Park een Orkney Single Malt Whisky is, en geen Highland, daarover zijn de meningen verdeeld, althans dat het niet "gewoon" Higlands zou zijn (en bovendien "what's in a name? )
Uit Scotch whisky regulations and guidance (SWA):
8. Locality and regional geographical indications
8.1 Regulation 10 covers the use of locality and regional names.
It has long been customary to sell Single Malt Scotch Whiskies accompanied by a locality or regional geographical name to indicate where they were distilled. In order to protect and promote these names, the SWR define the five major traditional locality and regional geographical indications,
which are “Highland”, “Lowland”, “Speyside”, “Islay” and “Campbeltown”. These names may be used on labels and packaging, preceding the compulsory category description, if the Scotch Whisky has been wholly distilled in the relevant locality or region, i.e. a Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in the Speyside region may be described on the label and carton as “Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky” (the words to appear in exactly that order). The names may also appear separately from the category description as long as they are no more prominent than that description.
8.2 The boundaries of the five protected localities and regions are set out in Regulation 10. Schedule 3
explains where Regulation 10(1) does not apply.
8.3 It should be noted that:-
- although only the five traditional localities and regions have been defined and protected in the SWR, it is still permitted to use, in exactly the same way, another Scottish locality or regional name as long as the Scotch Whisky was entirely distilled in that place. For example, Single Malt Scotch Whiskies distilled in Orkney may be sold described as “Orkney Single Malt Scotch Whisky” (with the words appearing in exactly that order) .
- Speyside falls within the borders of the Highland region and therefore Scotch Whiskies distilled in the Speyside area may either be described as “Highland” or as “Speyside”.
- it is illegal to use a locality or regional geographical name in relation to a Scotch Whisky which has not been distilled in the locality or region in question. There are, however, certain exceptions to this rule -
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