Reviews for World Whiskey

The average rating for World Whiskey based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-07 00:00:00 Kelly Nelson A pretty comprehensive guide, though it can't cover everything, and Taiwan has at least one other distillery since it was published, beyond the varied and experimental Kavalan (Omar, in Nantou county - I don't know what it tastes like, just that it exists.) I especially liked the detailed explanations of how whisky / whiskey is made and whence it gets its flavours etc. This supported my existing knowledge and also meant I knew what I was looking at while going around 2 distilleries. Also worth a mention is the fact that it covers whiskies which are a bit crap (Officer's Choice - not my choice) and explains WHY they aren't that great. I would drink whisky no matter what, but since buying this book, I have branched out and discovered new things I like, a few things I don't (grain whisky is a bit bland for me - I can just file this under 'generic whisky taste') and some things I want to try more of (like rye whisky.) A sad fact is that the book has shown me I once dismissed something whose worth neither the owner nor I understood. This was a special bottle of Bells. I can't stand Bells and nor can the biker who was trying to palm it off on me. Firstly, what was in that bottle would have tasted nothing like the Bells I had such antipathy towards. Secondly, it was actually worth a significant amount of money and I could have flogged it. I'd have got a good price too - I was a sharp little thing at 20. Hindsight is 20-20.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-01-06 00:00:00 John Wilson This is an interesting book. As I started reading it, beginning with the single malt whiskeys all in alphabetic order. As I got to #3, Aberlour, I remembered I had a bottle of it in the cupboard so I thought, why not involve myself with the book. So I poured a glass and sipped as I read it. Very tasty. And thence to Balvenie - hmmm, have some of that in the cupboard too. And I really like it. Thence to Bruichladdich in its tasty liddle silver boddle in the cubberd. Jest a dram, my man. And thence I read on. The payjes getting mer and mer inneresing. Bunnahabhain, where is thad black boddle. The readin is gedding blurry, but the story is a guddun. Pitching forward into the C's and that was it for the night. So I read over the course of a week before leaving Scotland with a headache. I sailed through the Canadian whiskys, remembering to drop the "e" and slowing sipping some favourites. I struggled with the plot as I came the bourbons, a.k.a. American Whiskey. It was new territory for me and the Bourbons are not as complex as the European family of the same name.