MurphyDawg Posted December 30, 2002 Share Posted December 30, 2002 The state controls all that distribution stuff so I figure it is no suprise that I can find 1L's all over the place here . Tom (A Mixed Blessing @ Best) C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurphyDawg Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 I have been on a bit of a James Bond kick, probably have watched 2/3's of the 20 Bond movies in the last two months. . . & one thing I have noticed is that for all the "Medium Dry Vodka Martini, Shaken, Not Stirred." mumbo-jumbo associated with him, he spends quite a lot of the time drinking fine American Whiskeys. A Few examples: In "Goldfinger" (set in beautiful Kentucky, no Less) He (Sean Connery) asks Ms. Pussy Galore out for a Bourbon and Branch Water when they first land in KY, and is sipping Mint Juleps while the criminal mastermind reveals hip nefarious plot. In "Live and Let Die", Bond (Roger Moore) orders Bourbon & Water just about everywhere he goes, and when at the Fillet of Soul in New Orleans, CIA agent Felix Leiter changes both their orders to Sazerac Cocktails. And In the Ian Flemong Novel "The Spy Who Loved Me", Bond's main female interest is seen sipping at something I know Linn Would appreciate (excerpted below). I knew the man had some taste! TomC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texascarl Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Today (1-20-03) I saw that Corner Creek Reserve is on sale for half price = $13.19, at Randall's Internet Wine and Spirits but that price won't last long. They also have a few other bottles that I can't get here locally so I've purchased bourbon from these folks before. Fast (if not cheap) shipping, they require that an 'adult must sign' for their package, so plan accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrel_Proof Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Every January George Randall removes the quantity discount prices from his internetwines.com website and sells his entire stock at 25% off. In addition to the fire sale on Evan Kulsveen's Corner Creek (which was already discounted), you can get David Sherman's Ezra B S.B. 15yo for $15 and other Evan Kulsveen bottlings at good prices, too, including Pure Kentucky XO for $21, Johnny Drum 15yo for $16.50, and Classic Cask S.B. 17yo for $45. January is the time to buy from Randall's. Add about $3 to the price of each bottle for shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paradox Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Yeah, but isn't that $3.00 shipping per bottle if you buy 10-12 bottles? They have some good prices but some stuff (like the Antique Collection) are BIG rip-offs... $103 each for the Antique Collection offerings.. Even with the discount, for $75 they can keep them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrel_Proof Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Of course no one is going to pay that kind of crazy money for the Antiques. Especially when they all sit on the shelf a few miles from my home at $36.99 each. But this IS the time to add those tasty Kulsveen bottlings to your stash. I like them--loads of char and all--and George's prices on them are fine, at least for another week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurphyDawg Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 Maybe its beating a dead horse, but i don't care much. I have been reading the "Bond" Novels as of late and find the persistant bourbon references interesting, In Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale he drinks almost exclusively Old Grandad bourbon, mixing it in Old Fashioneds occasionally.and then there is this quote in the Goldfinger novel from Auric Goldfinger to bond about Drinking:"As for drinking, I am something of chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such a fusel oil, acetic acid, ethlyacetate, acetalyhyde, and furfruol. A quantity of some of these poisons taken neat would kill you. In the small amounts you find in a bottle of liquor they produce various ill effects which are lightly written off as "a hangover". Since you are a drinker, Mr. Bond, I will give you a word of good advice. Never drink so-calle Napoleon Brandy, particularly when it is described as 'Aged In Wood'. That particular potion contains more of the poisons than any other liquor I have analyzed. Old Bourbon comes next."I also find it interesting that in many of the novels that the main villian is on record as abstaining from drinking, while are hero imbibes notoriously heroic amounts.TomC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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