grokit
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While I used to drink more red wine than I do now, I still appreciate a good vintage varietal once in a blue moon. As a californian at heart my favorite has been barberra, but a a good petite syrah will easily arouse my taste buds and there's others like zinfandels that are more dependent on food pairings. I will cook with white wine, usually a simple chablis and don't mind the dry ones with certain foods but I don't seek them out. Lately I've been partaking in a nice dry blend of organic red 'table wine', it's from frey vineyards called natural red. It's consistently pretty good, for my tastes.
Lately gin & tonics are my occasional cocktail; I have discovered that tanqueray #10 is preferable to bombay sapphire for my tastes, and that I like the better tonic waters; fever tree is my go-to lately. As a former bartender I can appreciate many spirits; from dark spiced rum to a lighter mojito, to a south american pisco sour, or even some ouzo, or absinthe melted over a sugar cube I love the variety of booze. I like craft bourbons like maker's mark and especially woodford's is so smooth. While a good 100% blue agave tequila that's been aged for a few years is also wonderful for sipping, a cointreau margarita on the rocks with salt can be quite an experience as well; like a good mescal can be, just different lol.
My most recent cocktail foray was last week when I brought a bottle of dutch ketel one vodka and green some olives over to some friends that I was visiting from out of town, it's very good but I also want to try grey goose. I can appreciate a mild single-malt scotch, glenfiddich is my go-to even if I have an unopened bottle of 12yo glenlivet laying around atm. I also have a nice bottle of templeton rye that needs to be opened, but for some reason I've been thinking about my favorite blended scotch, pinch, which makes me want to try another one I've read about recently called monkey shoulder. Of course now I really want to try jura superstition and bunnahabhain lol, so much booze so little time for drinking these days.
Has anybody tried both of these please compare & contrast![partyhat :partyhat: :partyhat:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Lately gin & tonics are my occasional cocktail; I have discovered that tanqueray #10 is preferable to bombay sapphire for my tastes, and that I like the better tonic waters; fever tree is my go-to lately. As a former bartender I can appreciate many spirits; from dark spiced rum to a lighter mojito, to a south american pisco sour, or even some ouzo, or absinthe melted over a sugar cube I love the variety of booze. I like craft bourbons like maker's mark and especially woodford's is so smooth. While a good 100% blue agave tequila that's been aged for a few years is also wonderful for sipping, a cointreau margarita on the rocks with salt can be quite an experience as well; like a good mescal can be, just different lol.
My most recent cocktail foray was last week when I brought a bottle of dutch ketel one vodka and green some olives over to some friends that I was visiting from out of town, it's very good but I also want to try grey goose. I can appreciate a mild single-malt scotch, glenfiddich is my go-to even if I have an unopened bottle of 12yo glenlivet laying around atm. I also have a nice bottle of templeton rye that needs to be opened, but for some reason I've been thinking about my favorite blended scotch, pinch, which makes me want to try another one I've read about recently called monkey shoulder. Of course now I really want to try jura superstition and bunnahabhain lol, so much booze so little time for drinking these days.
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Has anybody tried both of these please compare & contrast
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