Additionally, if Scotch or Irish, the whiskey must be aged for at least three years. The whiskey used in the bottling can be blended from many different barrels from many different ages, as long as all of it is
You might also see bottles labeled as "Genever Gin," "Geneva" or "Hollands Gin." This style of gin isn't really gin at all, but a precursor of gin that's distilled from a whiskey-like "malt wine" instead of a neutral spirit. Genever is often darker in color and more malty in fla...
buffs relates to the danger of disturbing the sediment in old bottles of wine. However, Lambrecht cautions users to hold those bottles carefully and attach the Coravin while they are lying flat. Then, rather than tipping them up to withdraw the wine, the bottles should be raised only slightly...
Wine—We recommend having at least 2 bottles of light-bodied wine along with two more of richer, full-bodied options. This applies to both your red wine and white wine. There are many wine bottle sizes, so stick to a size you know you'll use before the alcohol goes bad. You also do...
Yeng: I was just in my own bubble and I thought peanut butter and whiskey, why not? Right? But then I didn’t realize that that was one of the dumbest idea in the world. Everybody thought was like, “You are ruining our whiskey. What are you doing?” And so for me, I wa...
Kushner’s firm was (and is) relatively small and, by most founder standards, based on the wrong coast. In a VC community where the most valued advisors are seasoned pros who have witnessed multiple boom-and-bust cycles, Thrive is home to an ever-growing cast of 20-somethings. ...
There are only so many bottles of wine you can drink, purchase, and keep in your collection. So if you’re a devoted fan like me, there must be other things to spend your money on to enhance this hobby, right? While the number of wine books I own are starting to rival the bottle...
The Mormons who settled Utah had all kinds of crazy ideas: like how men should have as many wives as they can manage; Native Americans were from Israel; magic underwear; black people are cursed by god; and Mormon whisky, if it tastes anything like this, was delicious. I could go on…...
The best way to drink Jack Daniel's is however you like your whiskey. The smooth, charcoal-distilled spirit's sophisticated taste can be savored neat at room temperature and without ice, on the rocks or with a mixer. All are variations on the same theme
We use bottles of booze and new shoes as a metaphorical hammer to play whack-a-mole with our feelings about the sucky things, hoping that if we hit back hard enough with something strong (read: whiskey), the damn problem won’t just reappear in our lives. We run and hide from what ...