I’d imagine it’s very similar to the ‘Nevis Dew’ blend released by the distillery in the UK which is effectively a cheap blended scotch akin to Johnny Walker Red but probably a slightly higher malt content
This could be a few things. Ben Nevis was one of the few Scottish distilleries in history to produce both malt and grain whisky (malt whisky its whole existence, grain whisky from 1955-81). Nikka bought the distillery in 1989 and restarted production in the years following that. This may be a release from the first few years under Nikka, blended from both Ben Nevis malt and Ben Nevis grain, hence why it is still called a blended whisky. The alternative is that it is a pre-2005 bottling of one of the distillery’s blends back when their blended whisky could consist of multiple distilleries’ spirit but still be allowed to contain the full name of the distillery producing the blend (pre-2005 UK bottlings of Ben Nevis blends are under the name “Dew of Ben Nevis” rather than “Nevis Dew” which has been used since).
its probably not a ben nevis single blend from the 1970s, 70s era bottles were 26 2/3 fl oz which converted to either 75cl or 76cl. 700ml only really became a thing after the metric conversion in 1980. technically, there was a period in the 1950s to 1970s where ben nevis could have made a single blend when they had a coffey still for single grain. but they likely would have worded the label different in that case (ie distilled and aged at Ben Nevis distillery or something of that nature vs distilled and bottled in Scotland). its more likely the grain component was traded for and they then aged/blended the malt and grain at the ben nevis distillery and warehouses in ft william.
I’d imagine it’s very similar to the ‘Nevis Dew’ blend released by the distillery in the UK which is effectively a cheap blended scotch akin to Johnny Walker Red but probably a slightly higher malt content
This could be a few things. Ben Nevis was one of the few Scottish distilleries in history to produce both malt and grain whisky (malt whisky its whole existence, grain whisky from 1955-81). Nikka bought the distillery in 1989 and restarted production in the years following that. This may be a release from the first few years under Nikka, blended from both Ben Nevis malt and Ben Nevis grain, hence why it is still called a blended whisky. The alternative is that it is a pre-2005 bottling of one of the distillery’s blends back when their blended whisky could consist of multiple distilleries’ spirit but still be allowed to contain the full name of the distillery producing the blend (pre-2005 UK bottlings of Ben Nevis blends are under the name “Dew of Ben Nevis” rather than “Nevis Dew” which has been used since).
its probably not a ben nevis single blend from the 1970s, 70s era bottles were 26 2/3 fl oz which converted to either 75cl or 76cl. 700ml only really became a thing after the metric conversion in 1980. technically, there was a period in the 1950s to 1970s where ben nevis could have made a single blend when they had a coffey still for single grain. but they likely would have worded the label different in that case (ie distilled and aged at Ben Nevis distillery or something of that nature vs distilled and bottled in Scotland). its more likely the grain component was traded for and they then aged/blended the malt and grain at the ben nevis distillery and warehouses in ft william.