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Don't Judge a Bottle by Its Label - Vintage 17-Year-Old Bourbon
Source: Posted: 04-22-2009 at 05:00:14
| pFiled under: a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/whisky/" rel="tag"Whisky/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/raves-and-reviews/" rel="tag"Raves amp; Reviews/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/happy-hour/" rel="tag"Happy Hour/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/america/" rel="tag"America/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/spirits/" rel="tag"Spirits/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/liquor-cabinet/" rel="tag"Liquor Cabinet/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/cocktail-hour/" rel="tag"Cocktail Hour/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/dining-at-our-desks/" rel="tag"Dining at Our Desks/a, a href="http://www.slashfood.com/category/tinfoil-swan/" rel="tag"Tinfoil Swan/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2009/04/vintagebourbon23small.jpg" alt="bourbon" /br /OK, OK, so we're a a href="http://recipe.aol.com/profile?user=katkinsman11"little/a a target="_blank" href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/14/bourbon-in-the-u-s-a-when-are-mixers-not-ok/"obsessed/a with bourbon right now. But Derby Day is just around the corner, the sun is starting to make a cameo and, well, bourbon is absurdly delicious. br /br /While at a whiskey-and-barbecue a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/char-no-4/" target="_blank"eatery/a the other night, the bartender stopped short when he heard me order Woodford Reserve, mistaking me for some high-rolling aficionado (I'm new to the cult and have never even tried Pappy Van Winkle). "You like bourbon?" he asked, smiling. With a flourish, he produced this bottle of a target="_blank" href="http://www.kentuckybourbonwhiskey.com/vintage_line.php"Vintage 17-year-old bourbon/a. I laughed when I saw it. Look at that a target="_blank" href="http://bourbonreviews.blogspot.com"photo/a! It was like someone saying, "You know what's a high-quality nail polish?" and dramatically presenting you with an old bottle of cherry-red Wet amp; Wild with its insanely '80s script. How could this be tasty stuff? br /br /One sip shut me straight up. My companion crowed, "It's incredible! It coats the palate with caramel!" All I could muster after a long day writing about food was a sober, "Yeah," and a deep sigh -- the sigh of a woman who had just acquired a very expensive new habit.pa href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/21/don't-judge-a-bottle-by-its-label-vintage-17/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emDon't Judge a Bottle by Its Label - Vintage 17-Year-Old Bourbon/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/21/don't-judge-a-bottle-by-its-label-vintage-17/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/forward/1523829/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.slashfood.com/2009/04/21/don't-judge-a-bottle-by-its-label-vintage-17/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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