HEEMBO's original question was: If various independents were to draw from the same cask, would the product differ from bottling to bottling. The answer is no, because the flavour is connected with the cask and where it is stored. Each cask has its own individual flavour according to what it has contained prior to the whisky and where it has been stored. It is the very fact that they use different casks that differentiates the independent bottlers from one another.