Anytime someone makes remarks about wine tasting notes being ridiculous, I point them towards whisky tasting notes. Rope, Vimto, pomade…I've seen some ridiculously crazy ones.

This is a very astute comment, and applies to the world of wine and whisky as well. It seems people generally associate "more" with "best", and forget about a little word called balance.

It's 3pm and it's dark? WHAT THE EVER LIVING FUCK

Goddammit, Av Club. Can't you pick a day when I'm NOT out of town on business?

TUSK!

A slight tangent, but it's always amused me that my (remarried) grandparent's first date was to see Last Tango in Paris.

Which ones were they? I love Japanese whisky, I have a bottle of Yoichi 15 yr that I've been nursing, which, granted, is not an everyday malt. But the Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky is fairly available and is around $60…if you're ever around kind of a rural area that might have dusty bottles you can find Yamazaki 18 yr…

Oh, I remember Roundhouse. They also played it during the afternoon at around 5:30 in a block with YCDTOTV, Clarissa Explains it All, and something else. Hey Dude?

Wine Thread for the Devoted

Someone was kind enough recently to pour me a taste of Springbank 40 year, and that is probably the best Whisky I've ever tasted. Just bonkers. And I drink a lot of Whisky.

Cigar City is doing a new subscription thing where you get 5 bottles of yet-to-be released limited stuff, and you get 10% off every time you buy anything at the brewery (growlers and whatnot). It's $120 and I've been considering doing it just to re-sell some of the releases; I don't particularly care for super heavy…

I don't know, the back of my hands look HUGE.

I did the same thing, thought I missed the booze thread, went back again, found no thread. Wasted a zillion hours of life.

"This is great; she's crying and I'm eating salami."

On U! P! N!

I am going to have to borrow that turn of phrase next time I am unceremoniously rejected.

Since my fridge never has any food in it, "Loser status confirmed" gets a lot of play in the house.

Girls with glasses are great. So are girls without. Basically, girls are neat and make me feel funny.

Lemon Sprees being a perfect example. They taste like disinfectant.

I bought a bottle of Del Maguey San Luis del Rio Mezcal, but I haven't sipped any. I just opened it and sniffed it. Smells awesome.