Italian White Wines

Before the 15th century, somewhere in Ireland, Uisce Beatha (Gaelic for “Water of Life,”) or whiskey, as we know it now, was created. Whiskey, with spelled an ‘e’ in the US, and Ireland, and without an ‘e’ in Scotland, Japan and Canada. Whisk(e)y is distilled from a fermented mash of grain (beer), usually corn, rye, barley or wheat, then aged in oak barrels.