Whiskey is popular in Hungary, but not many people know their grains from their malts. The recently-opened WhiskyShop, just off Ferenciek tere, is out to change all that (along with the Scottish Corner, which offers a lot of other Scottish goodies besides whisky). The Whiskyshop stocks 350 whiskeys ranging from Ft 5,000 special offers to a Ft 233,000 (€780) bottle of 1959 Glenfarclas (pictured left). The store is the bricks and mortar showroom for whiskynet.hu the Hungarian whiskey webshop founded by enthusiast Katalin Szatmári. Her company supplies both the Kaledonia Pub‘s “Wee Shop” and Culinaris, two of the city’s other two major stockists, but shoppers are better off going to the online store, where a discount of 5% is available on all bottles, as well as a host of special offers. Still, it’s worth dropping in on the shop just to take in the sheer variety on offer, including the best of Irish, Canadian, and American, as well as some rather stylish rogues from Japan, Australia, India and Latin America and a small selection of edible “accessories.”
A couple of minor points to make. When you talk about Scottish whisky there is no ‘e’ in the spelling. The Caledonia does source some whisky from WhiskyNet, but we also work with other suppliers. I’m not sure if The Scottish Corner has simply moved address.
Thanks Patrick, I have done some minor edits and updated the Scottish Corner address. As you know, I am British, but the house style on these sites is American. We must have rules! Besides, if I took all the “e”s out of whiskey, the next comment would surely be: “Hey y’all, that ain’t how we be spelling ‘whiskey’!” You can’t please everyone…
Thanks for your reply Adrian, but with respect the spelling of whisk(e)y has got nothing to do with house style. When referring to Scottish whisky there is no ‘e’. If you were referring to American or indeed Irish whiskey. There there is a ‘e’. I suggest you and I have a whisky to discuss this important matter !!
So what if you are referring to a “blend” of whiskey and whisky in the same shop/store?
A blended whisky in Scotland is a combination of a number of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies, which have been distilled at more than one distillery. It does not alter the spelling of Whisky – irrespective of your American house style. Accept the trauth, when talking about Scottish whisky there is no ‘e’. Talk about American whiskey and you can spell it whatever way you want.
Hi there!
A kind of solution colud be using the artificial word ‘whisk(e)y’ in case you would refer to both scottish and american style whisk(e)y.
However I am Hungarian …