Tasting whisky can be enormous amounts of fun especially after you’ve has 2 or 3 the confidence and charm starts to show as does the glow on your cheeks.

Try your whisky with anything you want but take it from us it’s best tried neat to begin with and preferably with a clean palate. The glass you drink your whisky from is extremely important in fact one of the number one tips we can give you about whisky drinking.

The most expensive whisky ever sold at auction on January 24th 2014 in Hong Kong. The price a whopping $628,000 USD breaking the previous record of $460,000 USD for The Macallan in Lalique Cire Perdue. The sale raised funds for locally based charities.

Distillation is an ancient process which is believed to have been first experimented with in the Middle East as far back as 3000BC. It was most probable that what was produced was made from grapes or flowers rather than grain. Items like rice, millet, fermented mare’s milk, coconuts and palm sugar were also distilled in China, Tibet and in India.

In this chapter we share the (not so secret) recipe that goes in to making our favourite tipple. It still amazes us that whisky displays so much variation and intricacy despite its 3 simple ingredients.

Now anyone would start with sharing tasting notes and telling you to purchase the most expensive whisky in the bunch, usually the one that just won an award but that’s not the case here. We’re starting right at the very start of the process and will eventually get you to the end, not that we have an end in mind yet, so it’s up to you when the journey stops.