威士忌百科全书

by Charles MacLean

★★★了解与品鉴威士忌的圣经★★★

★苏格兰威士忌与蒸馏厂的百科全书★

★★★★一部威士忌收藏指南★★★★

●威士忌最初是无色透明的，装桶陈化后成为琥珀色的液体黄金。

●威士忌教父、执杯者大师 — 查尔斯·麦克莱恩代表作。

●苏格兰命名了“威士忌”，现在依然是威士忌最大的产区。

●苏格兰威士忌崛起的契机是大英帝国1725年对烈酒课以重税，优质水土是因为躲到更偏僻的山区里偷偷酿酒，“装桶”则是为了逃过税务官的检查。

●本书内容包括苏格兰威士忌的历史、产区、酒标、品鉴方法与风味轮、生产和制作过程。全方位展现164家蒸馏厂的历史和特色，无数个小故事和独家的酒厂秘辛带我们进入蒸馏工艺的精微之处，一窥威士忌产区差异的形成和演化，进而理解单一麦芽威士忌如何在这种流动的历史中诞生。在查尔斯看来，单一麦芽威士忌是work，调和威士忌是relax。

✩查尔斯·麦克莱恩是世界范围内苏格兰威士忌的权威。——《华尔街日报》

✩他是威士忌首席作家……是威士忌这一主题所有知识的源头。——BBC

100 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2020

About the author

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Charles MacLean is a writer whose special subject is Scotch whisky, about which he has published ten books to date, including the standard work on whisky brands, Scotch Whisky and the leading book on its subject, Malt Whisky, both of which were short-listed for Glenfiddich Awards.

Whisky: A Liquid History, published by Cassell in 2003 was named Wine and Spirit Book of the Year (2005) by the James Beard Foundation of New York. MacLean’s Whisky Miscellany followed in 2004, expanded in 2006 as Whisky Tales; in 2008 he was Managing Editor of Dorling Kindersley’s Eyewitness Companion to Whisky, and in 2009 their World Whiskies.Whiskypedia was published in June 2009.