Maturation away from mother distillery: Does it make a difference to flavour?

Can you really taste where your Scotch whisky is matured? Two of our whisky lecturers, Vic Cameron and Dr Gordon Steele, discuss whether maturation away from the mother distillery impacts the flavour of the final product you drink.
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[@benmarnoch4111]

Very interesting, I’m wondering if the design and thickness of the cask or even how well it’s put together by the Cooper makes a difference in how much angels share is lost. And as a result how much head space there is in a cask, which leads to a different flavour profile in two casks sitting next to each other in a bond.

[@tonychettleburgh8953]

surely a cask maturing on a scottish island with the amount of sea spray blowing around a dunnage warehouse would have a different effect to a cask of the same whisky matured in a palletised warehouse in the central belt on the mainland ? I can't see that there would NOT be a difference.