a bottle of Cutty Sark

It was a snowy Christmas Eve 1965, Don Duncan and I were ensconced in his disabled Jaguar coupe of unknown age and origin in his unheated garage. It was chilly as the two of us downed a bottle of Cutty Sark won at an office Christmas party. We were rapidly warmed by the whisky as the bottle was passed back and forth and although I don’t recall our conversation that night no whisky passed my lips for the next 15 years.

Scotland, clipper ships, Robert Burns and other fun facts
- Cutty Sark Scotch whisky was created on 23 March, 1923 as a product of Berry Bros. & Rudd, with the home of the blend considered to be at the Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland. 
- The whisky was named after the clipper ship Cutty Sark - the fastest ship in the world at the time. 
- The ship name came from the Scots term "cutty-sark", the short skirt  mentioned in the famous poem by Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter”. 

Peter