Campbell River distillery casks single malt whisky for science

Scotland has earned its whisky preeminence, but Campbell River’s Shelter Point Distillery is also on the world stage for its premium single malts, harnessing the craft’s tradition in a coastal Canadian way.
“Whisky” originates from Scottish Gaelic, translated from Latin’s aqua vitae or “water of life.” In the 1960s, Scotland casked the first bottle of single malt: “single” meaning one distillery, and “malt” referring to the way ba