Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel81 View Post
I've never tried it, but I could have a guess at the significance of the bottling location. As i understand it you're not allowed to add any colouring to whiskey bottled in the US, so assuming Bond is in the US it means no colouring has been added. The rumour is that some companies ship barrels of whisky out of the US for bottling so they can add caramel colouring.
This may be true and I can't attest to the fact...but the true colouring of any bourbon, whiskey or scotch comes from the barrels they were aged in. So it may indeed be a marketing ploy to adjust the colour to achieve that wanted colour.