Advent

[jbanana]

I hope that you all opened your advent calendars this morning. My father sent me one with whisky miniatures in it. Today: Aerolite Lyndsay. It's from an undisclosed distillery which I assume means 'this is ok, but but we don't want to associate it with our premium brand.' Or am I being too cynical? Any way, it tastes good to me.

I'm terrible at remembering flavours. It occurs to me that I can leave a bit in the bottles so that I can go back for comparisons. Too late with the first one, though.

Comments

[low_delta]

You're basically correct about the distillery. There are a lot of specific reasons they don't say, but they're mostly related.

1. "This whisky didn't turn out very well, so we'll sell it to you, as long as you promise not to say where you got it, because then people might think our whisky is no good."

2. "This whisky didn't turn out like our normal product. It's still good, so we'll sell it to you as long as you promise not to say where you got it, because then people might think our whisky tastes like this."

3. "This whisky turned out well, but we have more than we can sell this year. So we'll sell it to you as long as you promise not to say where you got it, because then people might stop buying ours."

4. "This whisky turned out well, but we have more than we can sell this year. So we'll sell it to you, and you can even put our name on it if you want." "No thanks, we'll use our own name. We have our own brand, and don't want people to be distracted by your name. Besides, maybe next year we'll use a different distillery's product."