Don Weinland

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Equal before the law? Transitional justice in Syria · 18 May 2026 podcast

But we will see a lot more single malts.

Chinese distilleries are definitely trying to take on the practices of Scottish distilleries, but they are trying to make it Chinese as well.

So they're using Chinese oak to age the whiskey.

They want to increase the usage of domestic malts.

And local water and things like that.

So that there is a Chinese element to this.

It's also worth pointing out that China just introduced its first national standards for single malt in February.

And these are largely based on Scottish regulations.

Some of these rules say that whiskey must be distilled in copper pots and aged for at least three years in barrels that are no larger than 700 liters.

This has led some alcohol makers to be a little bit irritated with the importation of these foreign rules.

I've heard that there's some Baigio companies that kind of wanted to make single malts in their own way.

But on the whole, this is probably a good thing for the industry.

And it is going to make Chinese whiskey more like

Scottish whiskey, I would say.

You know, I I did get to sample some of the stuff at Yunto's distillery.

They're not selling their their single malts yet.

I sampled some stuff directly out of a barrel.

Tasted pretty good to me.

Thanks, Jason.

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