Has 4 basic stages: malting, mash preparation, fermentation and distillation. Followed by even the most important stage of maturation.
For whisky production carefully chosen and prepared material is needed. The basic material is water without a proper water source it is impossible to create a whisky of a high quality. Water needs to be crystal clear, as well as of sufficient amount. Water plays three important roles. Water is needed no matter what kind of whisky is produced. It can be seen based on the location of old distilleries – they were always built close to the water source (a good examples is a distillery at Spey river in Scotland). Water is also needed to prepare a fermented pulp, it i sused to cool down condensators and also to dilute whisky, either at casking or bottling. Therefore nowadays, when new distilleries take buying the land around the water source to prevent from pollution. The course
In recent history there were significant discoveries of historic documents and artefacts in the region of Northern Spis. They document a significant time of life in the region from a historic and modern point of view. The scrutinised archive documents indicate that the oldest preserved distillery in Slovakia was situated in Stara Lubovna, built in the half of the 18th century.
Other references to the distillery are mentioned in the description of castle of Stara Lubovna in the Ugrian Geographic Dictionary from 1851. T he foundation of the distillery stands under the castle till this date. It is the oldest preserved object of its kind in Slovakia. Uniform documents preserved from the 18th century document the centuries-old tradition of distilling in the region.
This was also one of the determining reasons for nestville distillery company, based directly
