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James May on whiskey

James: "That’s remarkable ...... wow ....... that is an exceptional exceptionally exciting whisky drink experience and your still an ugly b*****d. Whisky normally takes me to frankly a very dark place (sort of cupboard). As soon as I smell whisky and certainly as soon as I taste it, it’s the world closing in slightly, until I’m in a, I suppose, what in Scotland would be like a windowless bothy on a dark night with the rain outside, it’s a last refuge and beyond that all hope is lost and that’s where whisky is and it will either take you into the abyss or it will release you from it. But with this one it’s like one of those moments of great clarity of thought, you put it on your tongue and there is a moment when you see all the Jesus light coming through the sky and the clouds parting and the rain lifting and all those things, it’s very brief and then it’s gone again but it’s there"Oz: "because at the bottom of Pandora’s box lay hope"James: "exactly, if you dared to open it"

taken from Oz & James Drink to Britain [Ep 3][2 of 2]