Appreciating Whisky by Phillip Hills

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  • ISBN 10 0004724496
  • ISBN 13 9780004724492
  • Published Jun 05 2000
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 192
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Collins

Publishers Text

As with fine wines, there is a social cachet in being able to "appreciate" a good Scotch. But how exactly do you learn this skill? Where can you acquire the knowledge to join this whisky-appreciating elite? This illustrated book offers the reader detailed, structured tuition on how to develop his or her palate for whisky. Readers are first taken on a detailed tour of how whisky is produced, what each of its constituents and each of the stages of its manufacture bring to the final product. With this grounding, they are then introduced to the various chemical processes at work during distillation and maturation that give each whisky its distinct characteristics. Using specific popular whiskies which readers are encouraged to have to hand as they work through the book, they are taught how to recognise what it is they are tasting and smelling, and how to describe this in the language of the experts.

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