The Prestige Whisky guide to the Whisky Regions of Scotland - Part One

Even with a little knowledge of Scotch whisky, the wide variety on offer in the market today can be a little daunting for the neophyte whisky drinker.

To try and help our customers on the Prestige Whisky website we’ve lined up our main range of whisky in region order. Each of these regions brings a slightly different character profile to your drinks cabinet. In the next few days we’ll be running through these whisky regions to give you a little bit more of a feel for what to expect from the personality of the regions as well as give some fine examples from our own range.

Experts differ over how many regions there really are and how far you are able to sub divide or break them down. So for example. The Speyside region sits squarely within the normally defined Highland region. But most if not all experts would classify a Spey separately from a Highland.

Island and Islay all hale from the Western Islands but have definite flavour characteristics that set them apart and Campbeltown, despite being halfyway between high and lowlands in the West shares some characteristics with Island and Islay malts.

Confused ?

If so we’ll try to clarify a little and give you some pointers as to which region is for you and maybe which of our extensive range might be of interest to you.

That's the end of the first part of this multi 'episode' guide to the world of Scotch. In future articles we will be examining the regions and in each case giving recommendations of fine examples you might enjoy.

Watcch out here, on Twitter and at www.prestigewhisky.com for more information. The enxt article should go live on Monday 28th September.