Cheers to Welsh whisky

Casks that are used to mature whisky for at least three years at Aber Falls Distillery in Abergwyngregyn, Wales. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

IT is famed for a love of singing and a passion for rugby. It has a distinctive Celtic language and is the birthplace of poet Dylan Thomas.

But few would claim that Wales, a nation of three million people outnumbered by sheep, is well known for whiskey, or whisky, as it is known in Wales.