Johnny Walker blends malts all the time.
I don’t want to even read about blending single malts…I skipped that part of the thread…that’s just criminal…
I am old enough to remember when blending whiskies indeed was banned. I recall their was once a similar sensible law for power cables as well. Copper was copper and silver was silver, no mixing permitted. Now they are allowed to blend all sorts of metals together- blasphemy! Why did we allow them to rescind that law?
Now they have all sorts of mutts in the mix- tin plated copper, silver/copper, silver/gold, silver/gold/copper/palladium. What will they do next? use carbon and graphene? Gonna sound like shite.
They are all doing it! Shunyata, Nordost, Audioquest, and even the newer little family distilleries that have popped up over years- Snake River, Zavfino, Acoustic Zen have their own blends with their "signature" flavours. Bollocks!
I did find one with a sensible name that uses a single grain. Audio Sensibility, but I see they import their ingredients from a foreign country!
Oh well, might as well get adjusted with the changing times. Maybe there is something my palette can tolerate and find acceptable.