What are you drinking right now?

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by Thomas

Egg nog with an extra helping of Eagle Rare 10 year. Our foster son got the cap he really really wants. A Longhorns cap.

Hence the extra bourbon.
Are you a Sooner Tommy? Your hatred for the Longhorns runs deep (note that I am not bashing you for it, hate away

).

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by Thomas

Egg nog with an extra helping of Eagle Rare 10 year.

Our foster son got the cap he really really wants. A Longhorns cap.

Hence the extra bourbon.

I got me one of those - the UT cap, not the foster son or the egg nogg.

 

[randallr]

Maybe an A&M fan?

 

[goodlife]

In an apparently subconscious attempt to keep myself busy washing glasses, I am now having 2 fingers of Yamazaki 12. The old fashioned glass I am drinking it out of is my third different glass tonight.

 

[eg1]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Nothing. I've given up drinking.

Liar.

Originally Posted by Connemara

YToo many bourbons. Jim BEam and Knob Creek at two different venues., Damn.

QED.

Originally Posted by DarkNWorn

Bombay Saphire and...Fresca, with a bit of lime juice.

Pretty refreshing, actually.

Fresca. Hmmm, tastes like -- tastes like -- the '70s!

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Too many things. Happy hour with several compatriots, and we got very happy.

Sigh -- I miss happy hour. Sadly illegal in Ontario since the early '80s ...

Originally Posted by audiophilia

Tasting at my place.

All under $30.00. All winners.

Originally Posted by audiophilia

Excellent. Love the balance of both the Thomas Hylands and Bin 28. Interestingly, I thought the Koonunga Shiraz was bloody awful. A real fruit bomb with zero character.

Might go for a RWT Barossa next week.

Expecting an anti-LCBO screed from Piobaire any moment now ...

Originally Posted by Thomas

Egg nog with an extra helping of Eagle Rare 10 year.

Our foster son got the cap he really really wants. A Longhorns cap.

Hence the extra bourbon.

Egg nog -- must resist ... no Christmas carols ... no Christmas lights ... no Mount Gay Extra Old with egg nog until December ...

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

2004 Tiago Grand Cru. This is is blend from the Tiago estate in Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. 80% Malbec and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. Alcohol 14.5%. Cellared from a Fall 2007 trip to Buenos Aires...could stand another five years in the cellar for peak drinking, I think. Hard to get outside Argentina.

The alcohol hits you almost like whisky...calms down quickly. A big mouthful.

- B

That you are sipping Tiago Grand Cru whilst I swill Misterio Malbec pretty much sums up the American/Canadian divide, now doesn't it?

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by eg1

Expecting an anti-LCBO screed from Piobaire any moment now ...

Moi? You have me all wrong. The LCBO is my favorite place to buy overpriced liquor!

Originally Posted by eg1

That you are sipping Tiago Grand Cru whilst I swill Misterio Malbec pretty much sums up the American/Canadian divide, now doesn't it?

I won't mention how I sipped two bottles of 2007 St. Michelle's Reisling yesterday, that we had purchased for $5.99 each! Btw, serious recommendation. An exceedingly drinkable R for reguar price of under $10. They are tied to Loosen (Germany) and the expertise in wine making shows. Had it with spicy Thai peanut chicken.

If you send me some Pelee Island Cab Franc icewine, I'll send you some good Cali pinots. Deal?

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

I won't mention how I sipped two bottles of 2007 St. Michelle's Reisling yesterday, that we had purchased for $5.99 each! Btw, serious recommendation. An exceedingly drinkable R for reguar price of under $10. They are tied to Loosen (Germany) and the expertise in wine making shows. Had it with spicy Thai peanut chicken.

I feel like I +1 everytime you mention St. M Riesling, but I don't care, because it deserves it.
So cheap and so good. Also, Pacific Rim is in that same price range and also a great wine, IMO.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

I feel like I +1 everytime you mention St. M Riesling, but I don't care, because it deserves it.
So cheap and so good. Also, Pacific Rim is in that same price range and also a great wine, IMO.

Good wine can be found at almost any price point. It just gets harder to find the lower the price. Then again, I can point you to bad wine at $50/bottle!

 

[goodlife]

Just picked up a bottle of Michters Rye for $28 on sale. Now I am having a little taste. Tastes pretty good.

 

[ironduke2010]

laphroaig 10yr. just about killed another bottle. time for another trip to duty free!

 

[Milhouse]

Traditional daiquiri. . . rum, lime, sugar.

 

[Flambeur]

woodford!

 

[binge]

Sonoma River, Russian River Valley, Pinot Noir 2006.

It's ok, not bad, but definitely lacking the character of better pinots. I wouldn't buy it again.

 

[eg1]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Moi? You have me all wrong. The LCBO is my favorite place to buy overpriced liquor!

Hmmph! No doubt the prices are inflated, but I suspect it is mostly taxation, the price we Canucks appear to be prepared to pay for a modicum of civilization ...

Originally Posted by Piobaire

I won't mention how I sipped two bottles of 2007 St. Michelle's Reisling yesterday, that we had purchased for $5.99 each! Btw, serious recommendation. An exceedingly drinkable R for reguar price of under $10. They are tied to Loosen (Germany) and the expertise in wine making shows. Had it with spicy Thai peanut chicken.

If you send me some Pelee Island Cab Franc icewine, I'll send you some good Cali pinots. Deal?

My memories of Pelee Island are generally restricted to sand flies and waiting what seemed to be forever for the next ferry since there was ****-all to do after taking a quick spin around the island. Well, other than drinking vegetal reds on the winery patio ...

I am pretty sure Canada Post frowns upon packaging of alcohol. Besides, my palate is nowhere near sophisticated enough to benefit from pinot noir of any provenance, Cali or otherwise ...

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by eg1

My memories of Pelee Island are generally restricted to sand flies and waiting what seemed to be forever for the next ferry since there was ****-all to do after taking a quick spin around the island. Well, other than drinking vegetal reds on the winery patio ...

I am pretty sure Canada Post frowns upon packaging of alcohol. Besides, my palate is nowhere near sophisticated enough to benefit from pinot noir of any provenance, Cali or otherwise ...

It's a nice little day trip from Leamington pier though. Bring your mountain bike, jump the ferry, ride around the island, take the ferry bike, and head to the Lakeshore for dinner, drinking, and the Michigan women, sure to be on the make there all summer