Scotch.... Mr.Connery's fav

[hotwine]

Reviving this old thread to post on a special gift we received this week. The young lady whose wedding we attended in '04, who had stayed with us 10 years earlier as an exchange student, arrived for a week-long visit with her husband, and presented us a bottle of single-cask malt from the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society of the Vaults in Leith. Andrew is a member of the Society, and this whiskey is from cask # 76.56, distilled in Sep '96 and bottled in Jan '08, clocking in at 105.1 proof and 60.1% alc/vol. I'm ambivalent about trying it.... hate to break the seal on such liquid gold, but REALLY anxious to taste it.

Our daughter & SIL have now also joined us for the weekend, and D has taken them all out shopping for western wear while I smoke a brisket.... will Q some baby-back ribs on the dying coals.

Wine consumption is holding steady at two bottles/night..... '01 Antinori CC Riserva last night, can't remember what the night before..... some '98 Rioja and '97 Cline Small Berry Mourvedre for the BBQ tonight.