mitchshrader
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I guess sometimes you shouldn't start close to the top.
It can distort your appreciation of good..
If you learned on a Martin D18 guitar, you probably can't easily appreciate a Yamaha.. and if you started with a harley, a Vespa isn't even CUTE..
So, I may have ruined myself with this particular cognac. I'm not a cognac lover, don't own any.. till now. I used to drink brandy once in a while, even Imported fancy brandy, but not much cognac. Martell Cordon Bleu, Courvosier VSOP, and thems the only two I knew about, and didn't care enough to find out more.
till now.
I like sweet, strong, old booze, and cognac isn't very strong, usually, nor very old, for what *I* can afford..
till now.
This is an estate bottled, (one guy made it, aged it, bottled it, and sold it) cognac, and not popular or well known. GOOD!
Cause, my mission in life right now is to find the funds to stash a case. And then, I'll be hunting more money for the second case. It's that impressive (to me, ymmv)..
Now, WHY I'm going not so quietly nuts here, is this is as fat, oily, woody, and spicy a liquour as I've ever seen. If someone had told me it was a malted rye, aged in cognac casks, I'd not have questioned em. This is different from any other liquour I ever tasted. I suspect that cognac lovers won't react like I did. I think the novelty of it has overly impressed me. I HOPE this dazed stunned addiction wears off.
I can remember feeling this way about my second wife..
Daniel Bouju Brut De Fut Royal, 15 yr, 60% alcohol. Buy it.
EDIT: Again, FWIW.. I've had about 3 or 4 oz. of it, in about 30 or 40 tiny sips. Every sip is interesting, every sip is sweet spicy wood, with NO trace of the 120 proof alcohol.. (I'm not driving!, I meant no trace in the TASTE) oh my lord. If you don't like this stuff, you won't like ANYTHING I like..
it's not bourbon. it's not peated. don't expect those tastes.
i am willing to trade you out of any partial bottles.
I've been trying to find flavors I could isolate and identify in this stuff, and some of em are kinda obvious once I think about it. Tannins(?), from grape stems. This isn't a 'clean' spirit, it's earthy, full bodied, heavily flavored.. and part of that taste is grape stems. astringent, spicy, one edge of the flavor spectrum..
and there's noble grapes, those late fall half fermented on the vine hugely sweet ones, and a waxy oily woody spicy taste that for the LIFE of me keeps reminding me of rye. It's not quite, but sure in that direction.. cedar? sandlewood? some spicy wood, might be spanish or french oak.. ahh. and then FINALLY rolling into the grape, chewy plum jelly flavors fading into raisen syrup.. and that's on a sip of about 4 drops.. and then it fades into a looooong, warm, round, woody finish.. licking honey off fresh cut cedar, the upper palate just won't quit.. and so smooth you forget it even has alcohol in it. *AND* proud to say it, very LOW evaporation factor.
I just wallowed in it till i was tired of grinning, and drank about 2 inches (4 oz) down into the bottle.
About 3 hours worth of entertainment, for the cost of a small pizza.. and it never even occurred to me to try it with a cigar. Ding! Ding! I think we have a winner..
It can distort your appreciation of good..
If you learned on a Martin D18 guitar, you probably can't easily appreciate a Yamaha.. and if you started with a harley, a Vespa isn't even CUTE..
So, I may have ruined myself with this particular cognac. I'm not a cognac lover, don't own any.. till now. I used to drink brandy once in a while, even Imported fancy brandy, but not much cognac. Martell Cordon Bleu, Courvosier VSOP, and thems the only two I knew about, and didn't care enough to find out more.
till now.
I like sweet, strong, old booze, and cognac isn't very strong, usually, nor very old, for what *I* can afford..
till now.
This is an estate bottled, (one guy made it, aged it, bottled it, and sold it) cognac, and not popular or well known. GOOD!
Cause, my mission in life right now is to find the funds to stash a case. And then, I'll be hunting more money for the second case. It's that impressive (to me, ymmv)..
Now, WHY I'm going not so quietly nuts here, is this is as fat, oily, woody, and spicy a liquour as I've ever seen. If someone had told me it was a malted rye, aged in cognac casks, I'd not have questioned em. This is different from any other liquour I ever tasted. I suspect that cognac lovers won't react like I did. I think the novelty of it has overly impressed me. I HOPE this dazed stunned addiction wears off.
I can remember feeling this way about my second wife..
Daniel Bouju Brut De Fut Royal, 15 yr, 60% alcohol. Buy it.
EDIT: Again, FWIW.. I've had about 3 or 4 oz. of it, in about 30 or 40 tiny sips. Every sip is interesting, every sip is sweet spicy wood, with NO trace of the 120 proof alcohol.. (I'm not driving!, I meant no trace in the TASTE) oh my lord. If you don't like this stuff, you won't like ANYTHING I like..
it's not bourbon. it's not peated. don't expect those tastes.
i am willing to trade you out of any partial bottles.
I've been trying to find flavors I could isolate and identify in this stuff, and some of em are kinda obvious once I think about it. Tannins(?), from grape stems. This isn't a 'clean' spirit, it's earthy, full bodied, heavily flavored.. and part of that taste is grape stems. astringent, spicy, one edge of the flavor spectrum..
and there's noble grapes, those late fall half fermented on the vine hugely sweet ones, and a waxy oily woody spicy taste that for the LIFE of me keeps reminding me of rye. It's not quite, but sure in that direction.. cedar? sandlewood? some spicy wood, might be spanish or french oak.. ahh. and then FINALLY rolling into the grape, chewy plum jelly flavors fading into raisen syrup.. and that's on a sip of about 4 drops.. and then it fades into a looooong, warm, round, woody finish.. licking honey off fresh cut cedar, the upper palate just won't quit.. and so smooth you forget it even has alcohol in it. *AND* proud to say it, very LOW evaporation factor.
I just wallowed in it till i was tired of grinning, and drank about 2 inches (4 oz) down into the bottle.
About 3 hours worth of entertainment, for the cost of a small pizza.. and it never even occurred to me to try it with a cigar. Ding! Ding! I think we have a winner..
