Paying attention to the wine.
I would like to state for the record that I did not spend the equivalent of a Porsche 911 on this bottle of.(maybe if I'd picked up that Ethereum back in 2015).
But even at the time I bought it — roughly 2008 — that $75 or so I spent on Bottle 5/228 from Barrel 1 was a major stretch for my budget, and definitely more than I'd ever.splashed out on booze.But I wanted to support my friend who owned the coolest, most anarchic liquor shop I'd ever seen, taught me almost every single thing I knew about whiskey, and was delving into bottling the stuff herself.. Matt Taylor-Gross.
The Best Rare Bourbons for a Whiskey Drinker's Collection.To hear LeNell Camacho Santa Ana tell it, I was a regular customer at her pioneering Red Hook, Brooklyn bottle shop from pretty much the get-go in 2003, and seeing as I dorked out every time I came in, she offered me a job to which I replied, "You can't afford me."
In my recollection, that is true up to the last part of the sentence, because A. I'm not prone to that kind of sass and B. what I imagine I was trying to convey is that the last time I'd worked in a retail shop where they sold something that spoke to my passions (that'd be the HMV record store in Herald Square, kitty-corner from Macy's in the mid '90s) I couldn't actually afford it because I took full and frequent advantage of the employee discount and essentially had to deposit my paycheck right back into the till.
Still, she didn't seem to take great offense and I hung on her every bit of wisdom about whiskey in all its forms, as well as life, love, and the importance of not missing a chance to open the good stuff."They're known for producing luxury barrels," says Keeler.
"The tannin of the oak is noble and rich.The trees have been cultivated since the late 17th century to ensure a continual supply for the French Royal Navy."
Because Tronçais oak is extremely tight and fine-grained, wine cannot penetrate the wood as it might in looser-grained barrels..Keeler says, "In comparison to Allier, the oak has slightly sweeter character and lends a luxurious mouth-filling richness.".