What are you drinking tonight? (Fall '07)

[ACDetroit]

These do say 8yr old on the lable and box but WT from th 80's and 90's that I have found have had an ink like digital code-date on the side/bottom or neck. check it out and let me know.

My last pour of the eight year was big and I fell asleep. When I woke up I put it in the fridge and just pulled it out. I can fell the spice upen up as it warm going down, you don't get the spice in you mouth dew to being chilled. I may never put this in the fridge again.

Tony

[Solomon2]

Pinot Grigio tonight, it goes really well with turkey!

[SSBourbon1]

Well, since my turkey was fully loaded with WT 101 and then grilled (man that was one great bird), I continued the theme through the day with more WT101, some Rare Breed, then finishes with Russel's Reserve. What a day!

[Special Reserve]

In honor of the day, I opened an early WTKS. I bought this a couple of years ago and when I got it the data on the neck of the bottle had already been faded.

I had no trouble with the cork, it left only minor traces on the bottle and the tamper resistant seal left some adhesive on the pewter top which cleaned up with an alcohol wipe.

The bourbon and pewter top are way cool. This is a rewarding drink.

Will

[bigtoys]

Conclusion: We really like the 2007 Stagg as evident from the picture. I probably need to go get a bunker bottle as we made a nice dent in it. I gave a spare 2006 bottle to one of the guys who's gonna help me run some networking wire in the house. A couple of us "forced" ouselves to drink the WTAS in honor of the holiday, too. Four Roses also got some good reviews. By the end of the basketball game, we had turned the sound off and were listening to Rush in Rio, switching to the concert video during timeouts and commercials. Overall, it was a fun night.

[mgilbertva]

2007 Thomas Handy - outstanding! At first I though it didn't compare well to the '06, but it grew on me.

I tried it neat, then added water to bring it down. I tried it at around 90 proof, then around 100, and finally around 115 proof. Very good at that strength.

A little lighter in color than last year: reddish-bronze. Tasting yielded molasses, some kind of evergreen (maybe juniper?), nutmeg and allspice, which comes up pretty quickly, and dash of red hots further in. Lots of leather in the middle and into the finish with wood. Despite the presence of wood, there's none or little of its associated elements like vanilla, caramel, maple, or brown sugar. There's a floral element right away, both on the nose, and oddly, the palate too, but we couldn't figure out what it was.

[polyamnesia]

in order to get the taste of Heaven Hill out my mind, memory, etc...i have had succint pours of WT RR101 (which was totally ruined by the HH...!..please see http://www.straightbourbon.com/forum...065#post103065 !).

but then the Eagle Rare SB 10 mellowed the tongue a bit....and prepared it for a nice transcendance into Stagg 07...whew.

[CrispyCritter]

I'm sharing the very last of my Ardbeg 1977 with my brother-in-law - a fitting farewell to an outstanding (and, sadly, irreplaceable) bottle. However, that means the Campbeltown Loch 25 will be coming into play soon, so all is not bad.

I also brought my WT101 with me, but, he just isn't into bourbon. Oh well, that means more WT for me.

[doubleblank]

While not a big college sports fan.....I'm having some WT MDS 14yo to celebrate Texas A&M beating UT in football and whipping Ohio State's ass at the NIT basketball tournament in NYC.

This is much sweeter than Tribute. Less intense on the nose, but a mouthfull of flavor.

Randy

[craigthom]

Drank small samples of a lot of bourbons with my brothers, my sister-in-law, and her brother tonight. Not heavy bourbon drinkers, but the '07 Stagg (with a little water) was a huge hit.

Earlier in the week I found a DSP-KY 14 OGD BIB, so we did a side-by-side with the current version. This was my first ND whiskey (since I started paying attention, anyway) and that butterscotch that everyone talks about was huge in the nose.

The Rittenhouse BIB was the sleeper hit of the evening. They were shocked when I told them the price.