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A Whisky Tour of Scotland The Dalwhinnie Distillery shown with their own whisky and another regional brand, Caol Ila inhabitants and seven distinctly world-class distilleries. I start my pilgrimage on the south side of the island, with three distilleries that put out some of the most intensely flavorful whiskies in the world: Lagavulin, Ardbeg and Laphroaig. There are five elements that determine a whisky's flavor and must be carefully controlled by the master distiller. The first step is selecting the finest locally grown barley and malting it. This involves sprouting the grain to convert the starches to sugars, making it sweet and intensely flavorful. Next, the malted grains are dried over a slow fire of peat, which adds the first level of smoky peatiness to the blend. Peat is ubiquitous in Scotland, and particularly on Islay. This moss cousin grows thick on the ground in the damp atmosphere, building up over the years into a deep cushion, springy in some places and squelchy in others. In a land with few trees, peat has been harvested as fuel for centuries, cut with a spade into brick-sized blocks, dried, and then burned. Peat also adds its distinctive smoky-rich flavor to the second element: the water. Here on the southern part of the island, the distilleries get their water from the lochs and streams (or burns) that pick up the warm, rich aroma of the peat as they flow through it. The hot water is added to the malted barley to dissolve off the sugars then transferred to great oaken or steel vessels called tuns, where it ferments over several days. The fermenting rooms reek of alcohol, and it will take a few steps to arrive at something more pleasant, since the fermenting only takes you to about eight percent alcohol. Next it's time for distillation, a process that was probably first developed by the Greeks of classical times, perfected by Middle Eastern experimenters in the middle ages, and then spread through Europe by alchemists and monks. On the European continent, the monks kept the secrets to themselves. In Scotland and Ireland, Henry 58 Luxury Life & Style May/June 2007

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