During an exchange on the virtues of which spirit would be most appropriate to honor Winston Churchill at National Review Online, Cliff May pokes the hornet's nest:
You and I and others raising a glass to Sir Winston can enjoy better — single malts, each individualistic and expressive of its region of origin.
With all due respect, there’s nothing wrong with gin — grain alcohol flavored with junipers and other botanicals — but it’s not on a par with fine, aged, and mellowed single malts.
Hell hathe no fury like Atomizer hearing his precious gin scorned.
