When Kendall and I were visiting Giok a couple of years back we went on a tour of the Glenmorangie distillery. We were taken all through the process, with Kendall and Giok desperately trying to get locked in the storehouse.

The final leg of the tour was to a room back of the gift shop, where the virtues of the various cask types were explained to us by a very nice Scottish lady, probably in her mid fifties. (Think Maggie Smith in Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.)

We were all to have a wee dram of our choice of Port or Sherry cask or of cask strength - the latter was Kendall's choice, although he wasn't aware that this one was as close as you could get to moonshine and stay legal. The lady explained that we would first sip the neat brew and than would have just a drop of water added to see how the water brought out the taste of the Scotch. As sheleft the room to get the drinks Kendall stopped her and said "I never take water in my Scotch, but if you have a diet Pepsi......?"