For Burns Night in 2018 we hosted a whisky tasting for beginners for a group of London lawyers.
We chose a selection of whiskies to guide our beginners through the highlights of the main Scotch whisky regions, and each was also the hook for a story about the history or themes of the whisky industry:
is blended whisky better than single malt?
why would you use a sherry cask or a bourbon cask?
and what happens if you just use sherry casks? Once or twice?
what role did smuggling play, and why did the industry decline?
what about peat and the rebirth of new and old distilleries?
