26-12-14, 05:29 PM
It is Lew, the quality end of the market has taken off. Scotland can't build the malt distilleries quick enougth.
But then if you compare Whisky to Vodka, well over the decades we have been left for dead. Missed opportunity.
Production is expanding now, but overall growth has been slow and the industry was almost on it's knees in the 90's.
Diagio suck. They just literally print cash with Johnny Walker, but they pissed all over their loyal workers when they turned their back on Kilmarnock (the home of JW). Not only that they stuck their fingers up at our parliament and Scots as a whole. And of course our parliament didn't have the powers to stop them and Westminster doesn't want to 'interfere' with the market.
Meanwhile one of the other big players the Edrington group (Grouse, Highland Park etc)continues to give away large proportions of it's profit to charity and good causes.
But then if you compare Whisky to Vodka, well over the decades we have been left for dead. Missed opportunity.
Production is expanding now, but overall growth has been slow and the industry was almost on it's knees in the 90's.
Diagio suck. They just literally print cash with Johnny Walker, but they pissed all over their loyal workers when they turned their back on Kilmarnock (the home of JW). Not only that they stuck their fingers up at our parliament and Scots as a whole. And of course our parliament didn't have the powers to stop them and Westminster doesn't want to 'interfere' with the market.
Meanwhile one of the other big players the Edrington group (Grouse, Highland Park etc)continues to give away large proportions of it's profit to charity and good causes.