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The label always features a declaration of the malt or grain whiskies used.

A single malt Scotch whisky is one that is entirely produced from malt in one distillery.

One may also encounter the term " single cask ", signifying the bottling comes entirely from one cask.

The terms " blended malt " or " vatted malt " are interchangeable, and signify that single malt whisky from different distilleries are blended in the bottle.

The Cardhu distillery also began using the term " pure malt " for the same purpose, causing a controversy in the process over clarity in labelling — the Glenfiddich distillery was using the term to describe some single malt bottlings.

As a result, the Scotch Whisky Association declared that a mixture of single malt whiskies must be labelled a " blended malt ".

The use of the former terms " vatted malt " and " pure malt " is prohibited.

The term " blended malt " is still debated, as some bottlers maintain that consumers confuse the term with " blended Scotch whisky ", which contains some proportion of grain whisky.