Bought some new whiskies today

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Originally Posted by Mark

Madeira version sounds intriguing - I'm slowly developing a taste for Madeira wine though quite what Wales is having to do with that I'm not sure.

Very few small distilleries can afford to commission brand new oak casks nowadays. Instead they buy them off wineries that have already used them, hence the relatively new concept of "wine finish" whiskys... at least that's what I was told in SA last year...