[mrsmith]

“The Scotch Whisky Association published its global figure for the first half of this year, and consumption is way down in China.

Exports to Singapore and China are down 46% according to the organisation. They declined 19.2% in the second half of 2013...”
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/chinas-scotch-indicator-is-signaling-disaster-2014-9

DOOMED!

[Agamemnon]

"“The Scotch Whisky Association published its global figure for the first half of this year, and consumption is way down in China. Exports to Singapore and China are down 46% according to the organisation. They declined 19.2% in the second half of 2013...

You know it's little bit off point I suppose, but my wife and I celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary yesterday, and the day we were married, her gentleman cousin from Kentucky gave us a bottle of Maker's Mark that we have taken a nip from each year to celebrate. I'm told MM brews for 6 years before bottling, so that "quite-potent-by-this-time" stuff got started 35 years ago ....

And the bottle is only 1/2 gone!

FReegards!