August 2009

  • 50 Year Old Single Malt Bargain Priced at $16,000

    By lisala on 8/23/09 8:28pm
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    Glenfiddich distillery is releasing fifty very special bottles of 50-year old single malt. scotch regionsscotch regionsThat's right, I said fifty year old single malt. The whisky in question has been stored in two oak casks in Glenfiddich's distillery warehouse in Banffshire, Scotland since its original production. Glenfiddich will release just fifty bottles of the scotch each year for the next ten years. The scotch is contained in a numbered hand-made blown glass bottle, decorated with Scottish silver. The bottle arrives in a hand-stiched leather case and is accompanied by a leather-bound book about the history of the scotch, with room for the lucky owner's own comments.

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  • Claret is the Liquor for Boys; Port, for Men

    By lisala on 8/6/09 8:57pm
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    There's a quotation from the (in)famous Samuel Johnson:

    Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero [smiling] must drink brandy.

    It's a very English quotation; Claret (pronounced "klar-it") is a peculiarly English name for a Bourdeux style wine. Port, particularly in Johnson's era, was an English masculine dinner ritual, followed, a hundred years later, by the gentlemen smoking cigars with their Port.

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