From Scotland to Japan, the best buys for the festive season
The Scots have an appealingly philosophical way of looking at weather. You can hear it in that most consolingly poetic, dram-half-full of popular Scottish sayings: “Today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.”
Poetry and philosophy only goes so far in the Scotch whisky business, however. The truth is that not all of the rain that ultimately goes through that alchemical process actually falls in Scotland. Barley farmers north of the border often struggle to meet demand from the Scotch industry, which means sometimes it’s East Anglian rains, having watered East Anglian grains, that emerge transformed into glowing gold from Scottish distilleries.
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