Across
- 3. ENVY – Kentucky bourbon finished in port casks, cheekily named
- 7. – Once booming, now boutique – a Scotch region reborn
- 12. – Northern Irish distillery with a royal licence from 1608
- 14. – Japan’s ‘forest distillery’ nestled in the Alps
- 17. – Japanese pioneer of the dram world
- 18. – Island famous for smoke, sea spray, and seagull aggression
- 19. – Nikka’s elegant mountainous distillery
Down
- 1. – Brand born from Japan’s whisky founding father
- 2. – Triple-distilled Irish classic reborn in Offaly
- 4. – This “valley of the deer” leads in global sales
- 5. – Whisky that insists on being from Scotland or else
- 6. – Region with the highest concentration of Scotch distilleries
- 8. – Dublin’s modern malt trailblazer
- 9. – Taiwanese whisky winning awards left and right
- 10. – Bangalore-based whisky that broke the rules – and the mould
- 11. – Suntory’s smooth grain whisky distillery
- 12. – American classic made mostly from corn
- 13. COVE – Tasmanian tipple that took the world by storm
- 15. – Swedish innovator using local barley and forests
- 16. – Welsh whisky flying the red dragon flag
