DARK TALES
SIR,—Some one hundred years ago it was under stood that a cognac which was darker than an- other was so because it had been matured longer in oak casks.
artificially, by the addition of so much colouring to hold the large stocks necessary for such a mat- deliberately started to market their brandies lighter uration started to deepen the colour of their cognac matter that an unpleasant taste impinged itself upon the flavour of the brandy. Things got so bad that the big reputable firms with the large stocks in colour, which measure the public accepted in Britain, preferring the genuine article to an amalgam Then many smaller firms who could not afford of brandy and caramel.
It is for this reason , that I deplore any brandy (or indeed any spirit) advertisement with the ern' phasis on darkness indicating great age; in the first place it does not, and it may well lead to a rat race in which quality actually goes down. T. A. LAYTON 2a Duke Street. WI
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