Are we finished with "finishes"?

[ronsmith at tiscali.it]

Hi Alex, hi all

I bought a bottle of the tabasco malt years ago and still have most of 
it. I tend to use tabasco rather than the whisky when I want Tabasco 
(bloody marys and on cold pizza for me). My main use for the whisky is 
when you get the usual pontificate telling me how "whisky's whisky - it 
all tastes the same", and so on. After a light glenlivet, a decent 
sherried and a peaty monster, I give them a small sip. It seldom fails 
to convince people that malts can vary widely in their flavours.

As to finishes, I agree with evryone so far. If they are good they 
will find a market, but I prefer my variation in the cask strength, 
unfiltered, etc. bottle. The finishes are mainly gimmicky and tend to 
irritate me (not to the point of refusing to drink them of course). If 
the marketers were interested in variation they wouldn't be busy 
vatting the individuality out of the casks in the first place. Has 
anyone questioned just how long a 'finish' is in any case? In the early 
days there were statements of a couple of years and so on, but you 
seldom see any mention now ('stainless steel finish' over the time it 
took to truck the stuff south to the bottling plants perhaps?). How 
long constitutes finishing? Half the time I am pretty hard pressed to 
tell the differnce between a finished and unfinished bottling, so i 
wonder just how long it sat in the different wood.

Ron


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