Dear TTB: What's Taking So Long?

Two years ago, the Treasury Department’s Tax & Trade Bureau
opened the bureaucratic process for issuing an official
definition of American Single Malt Whisky. After a brief public
comment period, the agency has yet to act on the proposal, and
that has distillers of American Single Malts frustrated with the
lack of action. We’ll talk with Steve Hawley, executive director
of the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission, about a new
campaign to put pressure on the TTB to act. In the news, Diageo
reports a sales decline for its fiscal year, while Campari beat
analyst forecasts despite economic headwinds. We’ll taste three
American Single Malts in the What I’m Tasting This Week
Department, and in our Behind the Label segment, we’ll explain
why “bottled in bond” doesn’t just apply to Bourbons.