Welsh Whisky : The Whisky Exchange

A romantic location high in the Brecon Beacons and the use of an array of cask types help to set the Welsh Whisky Company and its Penderyn distillery apart – as does its remarkable Faraday still, a Heath Robinson affair boasting a single pot and a two-part rectifying column. Whatever the technicalities, the spirit produced is sweet, green and expressive in its varying guises: unpeated, peated, Portwood, Sherrywood, Madeira finish…