tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post7015694360164272844..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: The Yamazaki 18 year Single MaltCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-60468194427893726932011-03-02T09:28:54.755-08:002011-03-02T09:28:54.755-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-46230474665265148552011-03-02T08:56:30.703-08:002011-03-02T08:56:30.703-08:00I think I could make a fair bartender, if it ever ...I think I could make a fair bartender, if it ever came to that, but no, no proprietary connections here.<br /><br />But if I like a certain poison, I'm happy to name names.<br /><br />Credit due.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-22452593290722024622011-03-02T08:51:24.488-08:002011-03-02T08:51:24.488-08:00Is Sir F. getting a lil somethin somethin' fro...Is Sir F. getting a lil somethin somethin' from Booze bidness? :]<br /><br />Disclosure, Sir F. <br /><br />Hard booze be Babylon. A bit of vino or decent brandy at times works---the drink of heroes per Dr SJ, right. But ginwodka/whiskey--Eevil. It's part of the british-zionist plot to take over ...the non-british-zionists. And conquer irishmen for that matter. Those old Temperance hags were not completely mistaken. <br /><br />Yr fave Ports, Sir F? That's the drink of bum poeticalsJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-41822880448778915242011-03-01T07:01:10.671-08:002011-03-01T07:01:10.671-08:00I should mention also that the Yamazaki 12 is the ...I should mention also that the Yamazaki 12 is the only liter sized bottle of single malt I've ever owned that comes with a plastic screw cap fitted with neither a cork nor a plastic stopper as would be found on any single malt produced and bottled in Scotland.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061304265345986242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-35200843062263371772011-02-27T19:25:02.415-08:002011-02-27T19:25:02.415-08:00I've still got about three fingers of a bottle...I've still got about three fingers of a bottle of Yamazaki 12 in the back of my liquor cabinet. It's what's left of the first bottle of single malt I ever purchased about five or six years ago. If the bottle was made of oak instead of glass, the contents would be Yamazaki 18 by now.<br /><br />My wife's job involves lots of air travel and time spent awaiting flight connections in airports where duty free shopping abounds. Many of her destinations are routed through Hong Kong, the duty free capitol of the world. She's often gone for anywhere from 2 or 3 days to 2 or 3 weeks, and she greets me on her return with a bottle of single malt, usually one I haven't previously sampled. <br /><br />I like single malt. Right now I have a dozen different single malts I could sample on a moment's notice, though about eight are in bottles that haven't been opened yet and four of those are the 50 ml variety that only contain about two shots. <br /><br />I often end each day with a shot of whiskey just before bedtime, but my nightcap is only rarely a single malt, as the malts are generally reserved for occasions when we have guests. My usual nightcap is either a Jim Beam Black or a Seagram's Seven Crown, imports that I can purchase locally at roughly ten dollars a bottle. <br /><br />The single malt I have open now for entertaining guests is a Balvenie Port Wood 21. It's down to about two fingers at this point, so I'll probably open another bottle and keep the dregs for a special occasion as I did with the Yamazaki 12. <br /><br />I think the next bottle I'll open will be an Ardberg 10, an Islay, considered the ultimate for peat bog connoisseurs. A twenty or thirty year old Ardberg would cost a small fortune and be far smoother and less peaty than the Ardberg 10. A ten year old Islay runs about $50 a bottle. Aged thirty years the price goes up by a factor of ten.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061304265345986242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-90621975111833821282011-02-27T16:35:08.613-08:002011-02-27T16:35:08.613-08:00Curtis,
what do you think of Canadian wines from ...Curtis,<br /><br />what do you think of Canadian wines from Niagara region (in Ontario)?Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com