Yorkshire gold
Believe it or not, a large amount of the barley used to make whisky in Scotland is actually grown in Yorkshire. So it boggles the mind that, until only recently, the region didn’t have its own single malt. Thankfully, in 2019, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery corrected that sad fact with its first release of Filey Bay single malt – and the subsequent 11 releases have cemented it as one of English whisky’s finest newcomers.
A 10-minute drive from the whisky’s picturesque namesake, Filey Bay, and located amidst fields of gently swaying barley, it’s hard to believe it’s taken so long for a distillery to
