Single Malts of Scotland: Scotch Tasting Map

Taste Your Way Around Scotland

Scotch is back — although with more than 500 years of tradition, some would say it never left. With this unique poster, you’ll travel around Scotland’s major distilling regions, trying (and logging) a single malt from each. Travel from the Highlands to the Islands, and everywhere in between.

Each region contains a space that will let you log a whisky from that particular region, with a place to note its distiller, age or expression, and the occasion you sampled it. 

A unique device called a flavor wheel helps you visually record a whisky’s flavor. For low values, fill in dots near the wheel’s center. A 16-year old Islay malt is used in the example shown at right.

Super-Sized

The only way to include every area was to make this poster big. It's 18 inches wide (46 cm) and 24 inches tall (61 cm). There's a spot to review a whisky from each of the major areas:

• The Islands (Orkney, Skye, Jura, Orkney, Arran and Mull)
• Islay (yep, it's an island, but it deserves its own designation)
• The Highlands (Northern, Eastern, Central and Western)
• Lowlands
• Speyside
• Campeltown

American-made French (brand) Paper

The poster is printed on 100% recycled, chlorine-free French brand paper, made in Niles, Michigan. If you're as big a paper connoisseur as you are a Scotch connoisseur, you'll also want to know that it's 80# Dur-o-tone cover in tough Packing Brown Wrap. The poster was printed, designed and tested in sunny Portland, Oregon with soy-based inks.

Special thanks to Tej Dhawan for providing feedback on early drafts of this map!