Video: Whisky Making in Islay, Scotland
Monday, July 18th, 2011 - 10:53 pm - Travel Articles
The Isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-lah), the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides, is home to eight distilleries that produce immensely complex and appealing single malt whiskies.
Islay’s malts are known for two things: their peaty smokiness, and a distinctive marine tang. Before being distilled, their malted barley is carefully smoked over a peat fire, and afterward, many of the warehouses store their whisky barrels outside, just steps from the Atlantic, where they breathe in the sea air.
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