Vat 69 is a Blended Scotch Whisky with a light, very fresh and slightly spicy taste profile.
William Sanderson wanted to focus on one blend that would epitomise the House of Sanderson and so in 1882 he set out to decide which of his blends this should be. Nearly a hundred of his blends were each stored in separate numbered casks; he then called together a number of skilled blenders and friends and invited them to sample each blend and to select the one which was in their opinion the ideal Scotch Whisky blend. The choice was unanimous and the number of the cask or ‘vat’ was ‘69’ and so he named it there and then ‘Vat 69’.