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Cape Breton evokes deep memories and strong emotions for me as well as a deep appreciation for the beauty of my adopted island. My hopes are that you too might find the photos evocative - maybe a view you've not enjoyed before, or an 'Oh I've been there', or if from away that you may be encouraged to visit this fair isle so that you might come to love and breathe Cape Breton as I do. One word about place names that I use - some are completely local usage while others are from maps of Cape Breton that I've purchased over the years. I frequently post travel and other photos that are of interest to me - and hopefully you.

On the right hand side bar find my take on Single Malt whiskey - from how to best enjoy this noble drink to reviews (in a most non-professional manner) of ones that I have tried and liked - or not. Also musings, mine and others, on life in general.

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Countries Visiting Week Ending 27 Jan 2013


From most visiting to least


United States
Canada
Germany
France
Russia
Netherlands
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Wasmunds Single Malt Whisky - Appalachian America

 
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I recently bought a bottle of this non-peaty single malt whisky, and although I really am partial to peaty flavour in my whisky, I found that this was a smooth easy to drink whisky with a plenitude of tastes and smell including hints of non-peaty smoke.  At 48% ABV the finish keeps a nice bite with fruity overtures that could almost prompt one to call this a lovely dessert scotch.  And if your mind-set is to buy small (as opposed say to Walmart overkill) this is a very small locally owned distillery.  Below are two websites which you may wish to peruse farther.  The first the distillers own site, and the second a great review from a another blogger of which I posted a small sample of his style.

Himself's Take 
COLOUR - Rich Gold

NOSE       - Remarkably fresh. Like Mountains in Appalachia.

BODY       - Silkily medium; firm legs, not quite oily

PALATE   - Gentle, clean, with a nutty-smoky sweetness

FINISH     - Lingering bite, Fruity overtures, Refreshing.
 Score 78-82

Wasmund's™ Single Malt Whisky   www.copperfox.biz/

Combines the best of the grand tradition of single malt whisky with creative and unique innovations for aging and flavoring that result in a special spirit that has no peer. 

At Copper Fox Distillery, we are the only distillery in North America to hand malt our own barley, and the only distillery on the planet to use apple and cherry wood smoke to flavor the malted barley. Our single batch copper potstill produces one barrel at a time and the spirit is non-chill filtered to preserve the complete flavor and essence of the barley grain.


Terroir is the effect that a landscape has on the taste of a food product. For instance, if a winery in France packed up and moved their personnel, equipment, and grape seeds to California to reestablish their enterprise in exactly the same way... their wine would taste different. Maybe not much, but it would taste different. The difference in soil composition, rainfall amounts, and even the chemistry of the air would impart slight variables that would ultimately change the character of the wine. Wasmund's whisky is packed with terroir. Every single input ingredient in the process is strictly local... and by "local", I mean within about a 50 mile radius, if I'm not mistaken. Even though it might sound crazy, the taste of Wasmund's whisky transports me to the Appalachians in the fall, and I suppose that's no surprise. Their whisky doesn't let you forget where the product was made, and that's something exciting. The 2009 International Review of Spirits commented that Wasmund's "finishes with a very long, slowly evolving, mossy river stone, peat, cocoa, cereal, and pepper fade." So in the end, the word "earthy" manages to describe this products taste, ingredients, and process. 


The Midday Wade of Great Blue Heron by Jerimia Wadsworth Bullfrog


Listen my tadpoles and you shall share in
the midday quest of the Great Blue Heron
On the 18th of August in twenty-twelve
Hardly a frog is here to delve
That remembers that famous day they shun!
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A phantom bird , with each leg and wing
Across the pond like a ghosted thing,
And a great blue hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

with apologies to Longfellow