It means “Good health!” in Scottish Gaelic.
Still October 6th, my best friend Sol gifted me a whisky tasting tour at the Scotch Whisky Experience for my birthday.
It was a really nice tour.
The tour, guided by Mathilda (thank you!), started with a necessary explanation of how whisky is made and the difference between Scottish Whisky and others. Followed a beautiful movie explaining the diverse tastes and smells depending on the scottish region the whisky is from, with a little goodie card that you can scratch and smell, magic!
What I remember is that sometimes they stop barley germination by heating with peat burning, instead of wood burning I guess, that’s where the peaty smoky taste comes from, and it’s typical for Islay Whisky like Bowmore. Typical tastes are Smokeyness for Islay, Vanilla for Highlands, Heather for Speyside, and Citrus for Lowland.
After the movie we started the tasting and we tasted a blend and 4 singles. Little tip if a whisky is too strong, grab a bite of chocolate before drinking, its incredible ! She said cheese works too, worth a try !
My favourite one was the Aberlour, but its also the only one I knew and it wasn’t a blind test so there might be some bias there. They have there one of the biggest collection of whisky in the world.
It started raining so I got my rain cape out, very good item to have for a trip in Scotland.
