Opened in 2000, Penderyn, of the town of the same name, is the first  Welsh distillery to produce whisky in over a century. The last Welsh  manufacturer of this spirit closed its doors in 1903. The distillery is  equipped with two Faraday stills and two more traditional 2,500-liter  pot stills and work with the Laureate variety of barley which is grown  and malted on England’s east coast. This 2012 vintage has been aged  in ex-Sherry Oloroso cask, giving it an intense profile. It has taken on  black fruits, woody and dried fruits nuances.  The Red Book contains historical texts, including a Welsh translation  of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae which helped  popularize the legend of King Arthur, poems and a series of Triads.