Black Snake

Black Snake is a brand of single malt Scotch whisky marketed by the independent bottler, Blackadder International. Unusual in its production, it is a vatting of first-fill bourbon casks that are filled into either Oloroso or Pedro Ximénez sherry butts. Only two thirds of the butt is then bottled, and in the style of solera ageing they are subsequently topped-up with two more ex-bourbon casks and the marriage matured for a further year.

The company calls the butts "vats," and each subsequent annual bottling from each vat is referred to by the title "Venom." Venom 1 from Vat 1 was bottled in 2012.