The Malt Whisky File The Essential Guide For The Malt Whisky Connoisseur

From Islay to Orkney, from Scotland to Ireland, and from Japan to New Zealand, this fully revised fourth edition incorporates a unique and helpful rating system for each malt's sweetness, peatiness and availability and a new guide to cost, as well as sections on 'historical' whiskies and on regionalisation. With more tasting notes and information than any comparable manual, this is a must-have for whisky lovers and novices alike.

For all those who appreciate fine spirits, The Malt Whisky File is the most complete reference available to the whiskies of the world, including those from the distilleries of New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, and, of course, Scotland.Offering a label-by-label analysis of each whisky, John Lamond and Robin Tucek offer helpful tasting notes, a history of each brand, and a rating based upon a proprietary scale of sweetness, peatiness, and availability (based on each label's total production). (5 x 8 1/4, 244 pages, color photos, maps)