Originally Posted by pbarnette

I suspect it is not actually distilled under license, but by Diageo in Canada. My guess would be in an old Seagrams distillery. And I doubt it is distilled under license, but would not preclude the idea that it is contract manufactured.

Regardless, the idea that multinational corporations with revenues in the GBP 15m range don't keep tight control over their intellectual property and are careless about product consistency is, well, laughable. But feel free to believe whatever conspiracy theory you want to believe.