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Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive flavours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years. But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not simply a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotlands islands, where he learns to fish with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an experts knowledge of whisky with a travel writers fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands magical drams.

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WHISKIES GALORE First published in G - photo 1

WHISKIES
GALORE

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Birlinn Ltd West Newington - photo 2

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

Birlinn Ltd

West Newington House

10 Newington Road

Edinburgh

EH9 1QS

www.birlinn.co.uk

ISBN 9780857903528

Copyright Ian Buxton, 2017

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without the express written permission of the publisher.

The moral right of Ian Buxton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available
on request from the British Library

Text design by Jules Akel

Printed and bound by CPI Mackays, Chatham, Kent

T HIS BOOK is dedicated to my mother and father who first took me to Scotlands - photo 3

T HIS BOOK is dedicated to my mother and father, who first took me to Scotlands islands. Not that I had any choice in the matter, and they were conscientious enough not to leave me there tempted though they no doubt were. But thanks anyway. And to my wife, who has put up with my usual distracted nature and inability to engage in matters domestic while I was writing it. Im told that wasnt easy.

CONTENTS THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A PERSONAL JOURNEY - photo 4

CONTENTS
THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A PERSONAL JOURNEY Now I dont know if you want to know - photo 5

THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF A PERSONAL JOURNEY . Now I dont know if you want to know where I was born, and what my perfectly agreeable middle-class childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that Holden Caulfield kind of angst, but were here to talk about malt not rye, so I wont be going into it, if you want to know the truth.

To start with, although we shall encounter whiskies galore (and a few gins for good measure), this is not your run-of-the-mill whisky book. That is to say it does not catalogue histories, at least not in any consistent way; capacities and outputs are recorded only intermittently; expression after expression is not laboriously listed and detailed tasting notes made, and there are very few artful photographs of grizzled chaps rolling barrels or serious-looking coves staring moodily at a tasting glass full of liquid illuminated by a fortuitous shaft of iridescent shimmering golden light. Grim industrial buildings have not been tastefully styled; neither have I romanticised dereliction, nor has an art directors soft-focus lens imposed spurious romance on a grimy and cobwebbed cellar. This is not whisky porn.

Why is that ? Well, if what you want is detailed information on equipment, still sizes, barley varieties, output, capacities and so on and so forth, or exhaustively documented lists of 1,001 different whiskies with lengthy and baroque tasting notes, there are many places to find those doubtless fine and important things whisky blogs, websites and books are there in splendiferous plenty, so enjoy. There seemed very little point in repeating what had already been so thoroughly well done by others, doubtless more panoptic in scope, conscientious in delivery and meticulous in presentation than me. At any event, a tasting note is only one persons opinion and an unreliable guide to the probability of your pleasure. Above all, avoid the absurdly spurious accuracy of a tasting score of 94.5 points or similar nonsense. Trust your own judgement; enjoy what you enjoy and dont let anyone else tell you otherwise.

Other people have compiled extensive lists and faithfully recorded output and so on, but when I started a similar inventory I very soon thought it pointless and unkind to impose another catalogue of such drudgery, however conscientious, on an un-suspecting world. Finally, and most importantly, that kind of book is redundant in the age of the internet. Chances are that by the time it is written, fact-checked, designed, proofread, printed and delivered to the shops it will be out of date and it will continue to get ever more out of date the longer it stays in print. The world of whisky changes very fast and this type of information is simply to be found faster and more reliably on the web.

However, I do find it interesting that in recent years Scotlands island distilleries have attained a special status in the eyes of many

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