Top 5 Best Whiskey Brands In The World
Whiskey is considered to be one of the most stylish of alcoholic beverages, associated in many cases with people from higher social classes. Nowadays, however, this type of drink is available to a wider range of people, who can enjoy its taste not just once in a blue moon. Ranking the different whiskey brands may differ depending on taste, but this is a list of the best selling and most renowned brands of whiskey.
World’s Best Whiskey Brands
Royal Stag
Royal Stag is a famous Indian brand, made by Pernod Ricard. It blends scotch whiskey with other types of spirits to bring you a distinct taste. Just as the animal it is named after, the Royal Stag whiskey is one of its kind. Its taste is an exclusive one, absolutely different from that of other brands. This is most probably because of the fact that it undergoes internal preparation and it is the result of merging many different liquids. It is definitely the most famous and best selling Indian brand.
Ballantine’s
One of the most well known brand of whiskey, Ballantine’s is a Pernod Ricard’s product, originating from Scotland. This particular brand comes in seven different varieties – Finest, Limited, Twelve year old, Seventeen year old, Twenty One year old, Thirty year old and Forty year old, listed in an ascending order in terms of class. With specially selected ingredients, fifty single malts as well as four single grains, Ballantine’s taste is bound to leave you with the memory of a high class whiskey.
Jack Daniel’s
This famous brand is the product of the Brown-Forman manufacturer and is without a doubt the highest selling whiskey of American origin. The founder of this brand is, as the name of the drink itself, Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel. This brand is said to be many artists’ favorite alcoholic beverage. The great singer Frank Sinatra was even buried with one bottle of “Jack”. The original Jack Daniel’s whiskey is the Old Number 7, known as the Black Label. The Jack Daniel’s brand actually has all the features of bourbon; however, it is promoted only as whiskey. The people from the company claim that due to the special type of filtering it goes through, the drink gets a specific type of taste that makes it distinct from bourbon.
Grant’s
According to the 2009 listings of the Millionaire’s Club, almost five million cases of the Grant’s whiskey were sold world wide in 2008. These figures make Grant’s one of the most internationally popular whiskey brands. The Grant’s company has a number of distilleries across Scotland. One of them, the distillery in Girvan, on Scotland’s west coast, is, according to the Grant’s company, the second largest in the world.
Johnnie Walker
Not only does Johnie Walker have one of the most widely recognized logos on the spirits’ market, but it is also one of great history and tradition. It has been produced since the 1850’s in Kilmarnock, Scotland. It is also one of the most widely distributed and could be found in almost every country around the globe. Everything, from the packaging to the bottle itself says only one thing: “class”. Johnie Walker comes in five major labels: Red, Black, Green, Gold and Blue, the last one being the rarest and most expensive.
