Ambassador 8 year Deluxe Scotch Whisky miniature 1960s Italy

Ambassador 8 year Deluxe Scotch Whisky miniature 1960s Italy version...

Condition: Vintage - Collector-Please note as this is a vintage/rare/limited edition bottle, conditions of bottle/label and liquid level can vary - Some years can vary and as estimations only (example: estimated 1970s/80s).
Fill level: In the neck -Exceptional for this age.

Still Produced: No. – brand discontinued 1990s.
Category: Blend. Single Malt + Grain Whisky.
Cask: ex-Bourbon & ex-Sherry.
Distillery: Not stated (blend by Taylor & Ferguson).
Bottler: Taylor & Ferguson Ltd. Dissolved
Bottling series: Miniature.
Bottling Year: early 1960s.
Size: 47ml.
ABV Strength: 43 vol/Gradi (Vol.).
Stated Age: 8 years.
Bottle code:
Barcode: No.
Country Origin: Scotland.
Market: Export (Europe, USA, duty-free).

Advertised as the 'world's lightest Scotch', Taylor & Ferguson's Ambassador was extremely popular in the USA. Throughout the 1960s and into the 70s.
Also, billed as “New York’s largest selling Scotch” which would suggest it started in NY or used the Ambassador name to market it as an upscale, classy whisky.
Ambassador Deluxe Scotch disappeared in the early 1980s (UPC, no Gov warning and no tax strip). It was resurrected in the mid 90s for a short while though.

Tasting notes:
Colour: Light honey.
Nose: Warm, nice, sweet, bourbon, nicely arranged, no alcohol, delicate steamer.
Palate: Sweet-earthy, warming, very chocolate, very cool! Super sweet, strong, feel old, delicate alcohol but very gently.
Finish: Medium, round.

Bottler:
Taylor & Ferguson Ltd was incorporated as a blender in 1931 and its history is entwined with two distilling companies, one Scottish and the other Canadian. The company’s major brand was Ambassador blended Scotch, and as blending company Bloch Brothers expanded its business after WWII, Taylor & Ferguson Ltd was absorbed.
Ambassador was then bottled for export either under the Bloch Brothers name, or Taylor & Ferguson’s. In 1954 Bloch Brothers was acquired by Canadian group Hiram Walker & Sons after the Bloch brothers decided that distilling was not for them. A failed attempt to resurrect Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown had affected them and they were both getting on in life.
The tagline on the 1970s labels was ‘Scotch at its World’s Lightest’, and Ambassador continued to be available, principally in the US, until the late 1980s.

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