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 version distilled in 2004,  was aged in ex-Bourbon casks and exhibits a generous, fruit-forward  character with a great spiciness.  The Black Book is a collection of 9th–12th century poetry falling into various categories: religious and secular subjects, and odes of praise and of mourning.