Whisky
To listen to the silence of 5,000 cask of whisky in the twilight of a warehouse while the barley seed is being scattered on neighbouring fields, might even make a Poet Laureate dumb.
Neil Gunn
This, I keep telling people, is the most important ingredient in any great whisky. It's not the water or the barley or the cask or the malt, but the people who made it.
Jim McEwan, Manager of Bowmore
Whisky is a mystery, a magic of locality. The foreigner may import not only whisky but Scottish water, Scottish distilling apparatus and set a Scot to work on them, but the glory evaporates, it will not travel.
Ivor Brown
with a brief description of each distillery
(Textsource: Walter Schobert "Whisky Lexikon")
Than let us toast John Barleycorn Robert Burns
Each man a glass in hand,
And may his great posterity
Ne'er fail in old Scotland.