Italy at the turn of the 20th century was a strange place. Having become a unified country in the middle of the 1800s, the new state had changed a lot, but was still steeped in tradition,…
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I haven't ignored anything – I've not even really spoken about the early days of whiskey making, just made a tongue-in-cheek comment about the origins of distillation in Ireland. You are indeed...
Posted on: 4 March 2019
Sorry Billy, you seem to be denying the factual written records that do exist.
Posted on: 4 March 2019
It's generally accepted that the making of aqua vitae (which isn't quite whisky) was happening in both places before the written records, so myth and legend is all we really have. However, as I say in...
Posted on: 4 March 2019