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I'll only be in Glasgow briefly this summer. Guess I've got a lot of tasting to do. Tho where I'll find the necessary gossip I have no idea. Mark At 07:17 PM 5/11/2005, you wrote: ><snip> >My understanding (pure hearsay) is that the Benromach opened in 1998 is a >different matter altogether--the name purchased by a larger distiller. ><snip> > >The old Benromach was, I think, owned by United Distillers (hardly small) >who dumped them. But no, I'm not sure when. Then Gordon & MacPhail who >bottled the old Benromach acquired the name, undertaking, premises and so >forth and created the new Benromach. > >Although I know the name, Benromach is one of those malts I haven't actually >tasted (in either incarnation); so your comments have been noted with some >envy. But the avatar principle applies in all sorts of ways. The new Ardbeg >isn't a patch on the old Ardbeg; ditto the new Bruichladdich. Just before it >finally went belly up, Port Ellen (once a fine distillery) produced some >memorably awful bottlings that tasted, for all the world, like marinated >cigarette ends and, in parallel, some gems. And so on. There is also a >hugely convoluted tale (which I am not up to telling) about the relationship >between Brora and Clynelish. > >And sometimes 'bad' whiskies can be good drinking. I used to be fond of >Inchmurrin, a clearly unbalanced malt which tasted more or less of >gangplanks mixed with rotting coconuts. You can become addicted to the >seriously weird > >Ho Hum > >CW >__________________________________________ > >'I might have known you'd choose the easy way' >(Franz Kline's mother)