By the way, don’t listen to people who tell you that all scotch is smoky–in fact, peated whiskey represents a relatively small amount of the whiskey made in Scotland. There is a wide range of ...

The distillery’s fruity single malt whisky is finished in barrels from an undisclosed distillery that previously held peated ...

Peat is most commonly found in Scottish single malts, although it’s also present in whiskey from Japan, Ireland, and even here in American states like Washington and Texas. By the way, don’t listen to ...

The winner of the Best New Irish Whiskey was Fercullen Single Malt. The other Gold medalist and runner-up was Boann Single Pot Still Madeira Cask. Irish Peated Whiskeys have been a rapidly growing ...

So I love forks in the road. Islay, the southernmost island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, is renowned for its dense wool and peated whisky—two effective winter warmers that keep its citizens ...

While there are some exceptions, a great deal of the single malt whiskies produced on Islay are peated. If you don’t know what that means, you might be imagining the dense, decaying, mud-like ...