Three ingredients are required to distill whisky: Water, Barley and Yeast. It seems easy and, although the steps that lead from barley to whisky are familiar in every distillery – Malting – Kilning – Fermentation – Distillation – Maturation – the final products and bottlings provide an extremely wide range of aromas and flavors.

Each one of the almost 200 distilleries in Scotland has a unique character. The explanation about this differentiation is simple and complicated at the same time. Different shapes of stills, different techniques and time length in maturation process, different options in every step of the distillation process and many more.

Another explanation has to do with the country. Scottish distilleries distill the area around them. They bottle the aroma, the flavor and the character of the area around them.

This magic along with the options in style, like single malt whiskies, or grain whiskies or the combinations of the above in blended or blended malt, or blended grain whiskies is one of the main reasons Scotch whisky is so famous.

And it’s a magic journey as well to explore all these expressions of flavor and terroir. Hopefully we can keep good company in your own journey in the whisky world and even be a helping hand in reaching a destination before you take off again to meet new ones!