The North Atlantic’s Next Dispute: High-End Whiskey

Happy vernal equinox, Top Shelf faithful! Brad Japhe here, ready to ring in spring with a splendid style of single malt hailing from a certain archipelago wee high in the North Atlantic. In fact, it’s an environment uniquely tailored to the ideal aging of this particular style. But before we dive in, some booze news:

Now, for our top story of the week, we whisk you away to a damp, windswept terrain where corrugated flecks of earth covered in sod and bog rise sharply from the sea. These jagged crags are eerily desolate — flocks of sheep far outnumber human settlement. Situated a full 200 miles northwest of mainland Scotland, the Faroe Islands look quite like the Highlands on steroids. And Bogi Mouritsen is betting big on it becoming the next frontier in superior single malt.