any bottles of GTS to be had w/o being raped?

[gr8erdane]

I've had all of them and to be honest, comparing them is like comparing Macintosh to Red Delicious to Fuji....and so on. All apples, all delicious, and every one with its own characteristics. Asking me to pick one would be like having all your kids in a room together and having to say one is your favorite. I just can't do it.

[luv2hunt]

OK Dawn correct me if I'm wrong here...and I may be! But your saying we can not say the 2002 is the best from notes and memory but you can say that is not from "Never Trying It"!

Nice try but I ain't buyin it! I had the 2002 last fall and it was better than the 3 2005's, 2006 and the 2007 I currently have! I can not speak for the 2003 or 2004...maybe you can?? :grin:

Cheers, Tony

UGH! (Please sense my frustration in the inability to communicate what I mean!)

What I meant to insinuate.......you know how you go to a resturaunt and have a meal that just knocks your socks off and you can't wait for the opportunity to go back and have that meal again. When you finally get the opportunity to go back and have it again.....after you've tried hundreds of similiar meals that just didn't seem to measure up, you find that your knock your socks off meal wasn't really that different from the others that you tried??? But it was your first WOW....and stayed with you as the Best???

That's what I speculate has trickled down on this board about the 2002 Stagg. It was the first.....and less than a handful of people have actually compared it to the recent releases....but the masses have been lead to believe that the 2002 was/is the holy grail. I'm not saying it's not....cuz I haven't tasted it!

I loved Dane's report here! See....he doesn't say it was the holy grail....but that they're all different and quite yummy :grin: I've tasted the 2004 through current release. (I think) You probably don't want my opinion....but I'll share it anyway....too much in your face alcohol for me. I like the 129 proof one.

Dawn