Before entering the whisky world, I’d never heard the word ‘slàinte’ or the extended ‘slàinte mhath’ before. It’s ubiquitous, not just in Scotland – from whose Gaelic language it derives – but in whisky-loving circles around the world. Being in a position to use it (preceded, of course, by learning how to spell and say it) felt like a rite of passage.
Fundamentally it means the same thing as lots of
