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Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel (Barrel no: 12-0798).Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select (Barrel No. 15-2739).27 Gold Double Barreled Tennessee Whiskey Baker’s Bourbon aged 7 years (batch B-90-001).Smoky spice is also noticeable on the finish, which evaporates from the tongue after a wave of bitter-dry zestiness and a sponge cake drenched with the finest dry brandy. This whisky is very complex with lots of depth and layers, with flavours that change and evolve on the palate. With intensity this whisky releases its flavours in waves. The star anise on the nose develops into gooey warm licorice and the oak bursts with dry wood and wet tree sap bringing varied spices and sugary sweetness all intermingling to create one fine work of art.Ĭonsistently strong, the finish is long and enjoyable. The orange cake then takes on a more pronounced zesty tang and develops into a fruit cake with sultana and dried paw paw. The taste of oak and wood bursts on the palate together with cocoa and dark chocolate, and all the while that dense orange cake is smothered now with honey, spicy cinnamon and licorice. The chocolate develops into freshly made milk chocolate, as a sugary lemon meringue develops with star anise. Soft and creamy, a fresh breeze carries the diversity of an orchard stone fruits mingle with lush green and spring water while an earthiness is ever present. Toffee and sweetness mixes with a dull earthiness as the aroma of basil and honey mingles with oak and a freshly unpackaged cigar. Luscious dense orange cake is immediately noticeable, slathered with some dark chocolate and sprinklings of ground cocoa and vanilla bean. However, it can be quite dull when compared to other whiskies so be warned – the Royal Salute is super smooth. It also offers wonderful complexity and a powerful burst of bitter-dryness that is lovely. This Royal Salute is a good example of a blended whisky at its finest, catered for the general market and with luscious smoothness.

Are the results in this bottle of Royal Salute spectacular? Yes! I think the Royal Salute sits at the pinnacle of the world’s blended whiskies. You can expect the results to be, well, spectacular… but sometimes recipes do not turn out or they are catered for a specific taste. Because the master blenders at Royal Salute can choose what goes into the blend with the aim of producing a desired character, this is like letting a master chef loose at Coles or Woolworths (the Costco, Tesco, Sainsbury etc of Australia, our supermarkets) to let them choose the ingredients that will go into a super dish.

The master blenders at Chivas Regal have a lot of whisky to work with from different distilleries that produce grain and malt whisky, and combined with the fact that the Royal Salute is supposed to be the pinnacle of the core range then you would expect that their best efforts are used to produce a high quality, very well balanced whisky. If the most important thing about a whisky is the way it tastes, then I think blends offer something single malts (especially single casks) do not engineering. Scattered on the internet is a lot of negativity towards blends and Royal Salute by single malt whisky lovers who unfairly overlook blended whisky, falsely believing they are inferior because they contain grain whisky and not just malt whisky. Of course, sometimes recipes do not turn out… though if whisky blending is a science and the blending is done by industry experts then the result should turn out. Combine the resources of Pernod Ricard with the talent it employs in the master blenders at Chivas Regal, and you have a recipe for a magical whisky. Owned by giant Pernod Ricard, it has a staggering number of casks at its disposal from some of Scotland’s most prized distilleries which it can use to make blended whisky. Chivas Regal produces some of the most popular blended whiskies in the world, and at the top of the range is Royal Salute.

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