[MM-MALTS-L] Good & Bad whisky

[Jon Allen]

An early pantomime - with premature Season's Greetings.
 
The scene: a secondhand dealership in Sarf Lunnon. The proprietor is addressing an irate customer.
 
'Ah, yes, Squire, the engine does seize up and there are indeed clouds of black smoke (sometimes without actual fire) and the seats do make you grateful you spend so much time on the back of a breakdown vehicle, but we bought it - and we sold it for as much as we could get.
 
To you.
 
I know it didn't exactly spell all that out on the windscreen sticker, but - and this is our gift to you free, gratis and with our compliments -think how you'll feel when you get to drive a really classy motor. See, if you were a real petrolhead, you wouldn't be interested in anything as crassly spohisticated as degrees of excellence. We at Gasketheads pass on unroadworthy clunkers purely for your benefit. Hey, that Lewis Hamilton was in here the other day, standing right where you're standing, looking for a right lemon to drive. Honest.'
 
Slainte,
 
Jon
 
Jon Allen> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:46:40 +1300> From: st.peter at paradise.net.nz> To: mm-malts-l at grsnet.net> Subject: [MM-MALTS-L] Good & Bad whisky> > When any discussion turns on what is the best or worst malt whisky ever> bottled, the arguments about which are the best are legion. Applying> reductionist principles, the definition of the worst usually oscillates> between the infamous Talisker and the FWP Bowmore. I take it we are all old> enough to understand FWP, if not in practice, then by association (think> Newquay, Grimsby, Peterhead)? I was unfortunate never to have had the> Talisker, and have led a pure enough life not to have fully appreciated the> Bowmore perfume. But the great range of bottlings that lie within the reach> of normal people (those that spend less than 35% of their disposable income> on malt whisky) are acceptable.> > I respect the Cadenhead attitude of "if we bought it we bottle it" because> that increases the available range of maturations in varied casks of varied> ages. Maybe most people wish to find the perfect malt and stick with it,> but I would have hoped that those on a list such as this would think beyond> the trivialities of perfection, and take pleasure in the endless variabilty> that single cask bottlings provide - crap to sublime. Anything beyond that> and we are engaging in religious sophistry.> > Peter Wood> > _______________________________________________> MM-MALTS-L mailing list> MM-MALTS-L at grsnet.net> http://lists.grsnet.net/mailman/listinfo/mm-malts-l
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