The World Guide to Whisky: Scotch, Irish, Canadian, Bourbon, Tennessee Sour Mash and the Whiskies of Japan, Plus a Comprehensive Taste-guide to Single Malts and the World's Best-known BlendsIllustrated with over 200 colour photographs, this comprehensive guide looks in detail at distilling methods, geographical features and social traditions that affect the taste of whisky (or whiskey) in every significant producing region of the world. With a sense of its distinguished history, Michael Jackson shows us why whisky is a spirit both fascinating in its variety and in its claim to a nobility that is the match of any Armagnac or Cognac. |
Contents
THE WATER OF LIFE | 5 |
SCOTLAND | 14 |
The Western Highlands | 52 |
Copyright | |
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12 years old 86 proof aroma Bardstown barley barrels blended whisky BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND bottled single malt BOURBON WHISKEY brand Bushmills Cadenhead Campbeltown Canada Canadian whiskies character classic DISTILLED AND BOTTLED distillery label Distillery Proprietors drink drinker dry finish fermentation flavour fruity Glen Glenlivet GORDON & MACPHAIL Gordon and MacPhail Heaven Hill HIGHLAND MALT SCOTCH Highland Malt Whisky Hiram Walker Ireland Irish whiskey island Islay Jack Daniel's Japan Japanese whisky Kentucky KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON Laphroaig lery liqueur Louisville Lowlands malt distillery MALT SCOTCH WHISKY malty maturation mellow merchants mountain Nikka Old Fitzgerald palate peat peaty PRODUCT OF SCOTLAND river rye whiskey Scotch Highland Malt SCOTCH WHISKY SCOTLAND Connoisseurs Choice Scots Scottish Seagram's sherry smokiness smooth sour mash Spey Speyside spirit STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY style Suntory sweet sweetish taste-guide Tennessee tion Tomatin town traditional vatted malt warehouses whis Wild Turkey yeast