Nestling in the hills above Pitlochry in Perthsire is Scotland's smallest distillery, Edradour. If you only visit one distillery in Scotland, let it be this one. For a start, the tour is free, as is your dram, and as the distillery is small, you get a real sense of the history of the distilling process. Everything is done by hand as it always has been and you can see the whisky-making process on a more human scale. It's also a very nice whisky! Anyone where the word whiksy comes from? What it means? A bottle of Edradour to the first correct answer! (Aye, right! - the only example of a double positive meaning negative!)
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Ah, the water of life it is, Scotch whiskey. I'd like a dram of it right now!
How very lovely indeed. I'm enjoying this tour out of the city. My neighbor from our previous city was Scottish, and she showed us a prized bottle of this and said it was a wonderful and very smooth "older ladies" sort of quality Scotch whisky. I think it means water of life and comes from gaelic and old English root words.
-Kim
well done! from the gaelic 'uisge beatha' meaning water of life - the gaels had the right idea!!
Annie should note that whiskey with an 'e' is not Scotch! It will describe Irish, American .... spirits.
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