On the Road at the 2019 Victoria Whisky Festival (Episode 750: January 18, 2019)

This is the first of our two episodes from the 14th annual
Victoria Whisky Festival in Victoria, British Columbia. One of
the highlights of the festival each year is the Canadian Whisky
Awards, and Forty Creek returned to the top of the podium this
year for the first time in five years with a new 22-year-old
Canadian Rye whisky. We'll have the details on that and other
award winners in the news, and we'll also look at the debate over
the impact of terroir in whisky. Vancouver Island's Shelter Point
Distillery won the Award for Innovation for its whisky distilled
from 100% unmalted barley whisky grown on the distillery's own
farm. That's just one example, and Ireland's Waterford Distillery
is taking terroir to the other extreme with barley from more than
40 local farms being malted, distilled, and matured separately to
maximize the impact of terroir. We'll discuss the findings of new
scientific research on Waterford's barley with founder Mark
Reynier on WhiskyCast In-Depth.