Teaspooned whisky gets a bad rap. Notorious for subverting the laws governing what is or isn’t Japanese whisky, teaspooning is the act of blending a tiny amount (ie. a teaspoon) of whisky from one distillery with whisky from a different distillery. After the teaspoon addition, the whisky can no longer be referred to as single malt nor given the name of the original distillery. Since the 80’s, the technique has been employed as a cheap and easy way to protect the source distillery’s reputation if a cask is sold to an independent bottler and they decide to do something wild. Cadenhead’s is one such independent bottler and their Enigma series whiskies are meant to be “unusual, hard to quantify, perhaps even slightly contradictory”. Luckily for us, teaspooning also drops the consumer cost from single malt to nameless blend. A 27-year-old bottle that is unduly less expensive and so unique it has to be put into a special series? Sign us up!