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Source argument
Printed pp. 42–43 explain that combining casks is common within single malt production as well as named blended categories. They frame the blender's task as producing recognizable character from changing stocks, including replacement of unavailable components with one or more alternatives. Component roles are illustrated by an orchestra metaphor; component count and malt proportion alone do not establish quality.
Synthesis and library connection
Distinguish the physical operation of combining whiskies from a jurisdiction-specific category name. Retain source attribution for Scotch terminology rather than exporting it into American labeling. The stable-target/changing-input account connects directly to Goodness Nose and the existing consistency process; these books' overlapping contributors mean repeated assertions are not automatically independent evidence.
Editorial provenance
Printed p. 7 / PDF 9 credits Dominic Roskrow with updating “Understanding Whiskey.” The title credits Roskrow and Gavin D. Smith; copyright p. 288 separates original 2005 text from new 2017 text. Cite the revised edition and its stated updater when appropriate, without claiming to know which individual sentence originated in which edition. Do not silently attribute a 2017 market observation to Jackson or treat this guide as the separate Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch.
Limits
Statements about typical ratios, market trends, cask counts and evaluation strength remain edition-specific descriptions. They are not required blending formulas, current commercial data or validated sensory-test specifications.
Related revision: World Whisky (2016)
This separate DK guide names MacLean as editor-in-chief, seven writers and Smith as reviser. Contributor overlap is a reason to investigate source independence, not proof that particular text was copied. Its dated entries and repeated legal simplifications should be evaluated individually.
Full-copy reading extension: origin, chronology and source independence
PDF 232–239 / printed 230–237 describes Japanese producers creating diverse components within their own operations. This usefully extends the idea of blending as an operation, but the guide's claims about imported stock require individual product evidence. Company ownership, a label's home address and spirit's production origin are separate facts.
PDF 272–273 / printed 270–271 distinguishes New Zealand's closed Willowbank production and later management of inherited stocks; a new company or new release does not imply newly distilled spirit. PDF 251 / printed 249 describes Aurora selling sourced Scotch while developing local production. These are dated case studies for an Academy provenance exercise, not current operating profiles.
The 2017 imprint at PDF 290 / printed 288 separates Jackson's 2005 text from DK's new 2017 material. Contributor biographies are at PDF 9 / printed 7, correcting the earlier p. 6 locator. Shared contributors with other guides and Canadian Whisky limit evidential independence.
All supplied pages, index and picture credits were read. The index contains impossible or suspect locators, including Connemara 1161 and Japan's map at 237; retrieve claims from body pages. Producer-supplied image credits do not prove that every credited brand owns a distillery. Map compass errors and an embedded editorial instruction elsewhere in the supplied file reinforce the need for claim-level checks.
