Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Scotland's masterpiece: whisky made from 100% malted barley at a single distillery, distilled in copper pot stills and aged in oak under Scottish skies. Ingredients: malted barley, water, yeast — nothing else is permitted. Method: 1) Mash the malt, ferment it into a beer-like wash, and double-distill in pot stills. 2) Age at least three years in oak casks — fine malts rest far longer, soaking up vanilla, dried fruit and smoke. 3) Serve neat in a tulip glass; a few drops of water open the aromas. The experience: a landscape in a glass — honeyed and fruity from Speyside, maritime and heathery from the Highlands, powerfully peat-smoked from Islay. History: Scots have distilled uisge beatha, the “water of life,” for over 500 years; today more than 140 distilleries guard the craft, each valley and island with its own accent.