NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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<strong>NYT</strong>-1207: DINING & WINE - SPIRITS <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> TIMES<br />
From Scotland, Fog and Smoke and Mystery ... By ERI<br />
C ASIMOV<br />
The panel tasted 2o single malts from Islay, smoky<br />
whiskies that demand a sense of wonder.<br />
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TASTING whiskies can be a clinical, prosaic task,<br />
nosing and assessing, jotting notes, reconsidering<br />
, lips compressed in concentration, brow furrowed.<br />
Yet, as the spirits panel tasted 20 single malts<br />
from Islay, we reminded ourselves to step back a m<br />
oment, to contemplate with no small amount of awe<br />
the magic of what was in the glass. Islay demands<br />
a sense of wonder.<br />
I’ve never visited Islay, that island off Scotland<br />
’s western coast with the evocative pronunciation<br />
EYE-lah. But sipping a good Islay single malt, wit<br />
h its astounding range of complex expressions, tra<br />
nsports you to an Islay that seems as mythical as<br />
it is real.<br />
It’s a world unscarred by modernity’s claws, an is<br />
land of fog, smoke, brine and mystery, where ancie<br />
nt distilleries, after years of throbbing producti<br />
on, go dark when demand wanes. There they sit, aba<br />
ndoned on the green and craggy landscape, their di<br />
stinctive pagoda roofs intact, yet silent like pha<br />
ntom freighters.<br />
Some remain that way, their sites revered like anc<br />
ient stone circles by whisky lovers. For others co<br />
mes reincarnation when market conditions change ag<br />
ain. The ghostly cobwebs are cleared away, the pot<br />
stills rejuvenated, and once more they will yield<br />
the precious distilled vapors of malted barley, p<br />
eat, yeast, crystalline water and air.