Catka’s Reviews > Scotch: the whisky of Scotland in fact and story > Status Update

One whisky is all right, two is too much and three is too few.

[whisky] has been made all over the Highlands, where Nature still supplies the essential ingredients for its distillation: home-grown barley for the malt, the pure air of the mountains, the unpolluted water of the hill burns, the rich, dark peat of the moor, and ... the granite rocks from which the water springs.

word whisky is Celtic and comes from the Gaelic uisge-beatha which means the water of life