{"id":70,"date":"2023-08-11T05:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","slug":"thats-a-lotta-scotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/thats-a-lotta-scotch\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a lotta Scotch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know: The French are the biggest consumers of Scotch whisky, importing 176 million bottles last year. India comes in second, importing 136 million bottles, while the USA ranks third with 126 million bottles in 2021. The USA alone imports around $972 million worth of Scotch whisky. This is all good news for the Scottish government which makes around $150 from the 38 bottles being exported every second from Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1028\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/335904598_23854169606690236_3472001155459329224_n.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/335904598_23854169606690236_3472001155459329224_n.jpeg 1028w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/335904598_23854169606690236_3472001155459329224_n-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/335904598_23854169606690236_3472001155459329224_n-1024x538.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/335904598_23854169606690236_3472001155459329224_n-768x403.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know: The French are the biggest consumers of Scotch whisky, importing 176 million bottles last year. India comes in second, importing 136 million bottles, while the USA ranks third with 126 million bottles in 2021. The USA alone imports around $972 million worth of Scotch whisky. This is all good news for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}