. "Christmas cask of whisky will be ready presently
JOHN GIBSON
LADIES, now listen here! Unless you're afflicted by Attention Deficit Disorder (evidently there's a lot of it about), I don't want excuses. It's time to ponder what to give the man in your life for Christmas, the man who's got everything. Here's the very dab. A cask of Scotch. He'll love you for it. And he won't leave you. Not for ten years anyway. The Tullibardine Distillery at Blackford, Perthshire, will do you a cask of new spirit, made from malted barley, yeast and water, and stamp your man's name and number on it. But he can't start guzzling the nectar on Christmas Day, so if he's an alcoholic, obviously you'll have problems. The distillery up there, run by Edinburgh entrepreneurs Doug Ross and Mike Beamish, store it in their warehouse, by law, and allow it to mature into Tullibardine single highland malt whisky, 40 per cent vol. The stuff to put hairs on his chest. Meantime, for a stocking filler, a chest wig. Stop chuntering, Gibson, and get to the bottom line, you're screaming. Oh, you mean cost? A mere £790, including storage and excluding duty and VAT. You're always free, the pair of you, to nip up the road and give Mr Wonderful's personal cask an affectionate pat. Ten years hence it will hatch 350 bottles. I'm dribbling already just scribbling about it. "
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