THE ART OF WHISKY is a breathtaking and unusual gift book for whisky connoisseurs celebrating the spirit from an unexpectedly beautiful angle. By chance, award-winning photographer Ernie Button noticed the intricate patterns formed in the residue at the bottoms of (almost) empty whisky glasses - each as different as a snowflake - and began photographing them with inventive lighting techniques. The resulting images are exquisitely gorgeous, evoking earthly landscapes and extraterrestrial visions, with each more amazing than the next. This book collects nearly 100 of those images and adds delightful touches such as tasting notes, as well as a text on the science of what we're seeing, and writing about single malt Scotch by Scotland's leading whisky expert Charles MacLean, commissioned exclusively for this book.

《威士忌的艺术》是一本令人叹为观止、不同寻常的礼物书，让威士忌鉴赏家从一个意想不到的美丽角度欣赏这种酒。获奖摄影师厄尼·巴顿（Ernie Button）在一次偶然的机会注意到，在喝完的威士忌酒杯底部，残留物形成了复杂的图案，每个图案都像雪花一样不同，于是他开始用创造性的照明技术拍摄它们。拍摄出来的图像非常华丽，唤起了地球上的风景和外星的愿景，每一张都比下一张更令人惊叹。本书收集了近100张这些图片，并增加了一些令人愉快的内容，如品尝说明，以及关于我们所看到的科学的文字，还有苏格兰领先的威士忌专家查尔斯·麦克莱恩（Charles MacLean）专门为本书撰写的关于单一麦芽苏格兰威士忌的文章。