bods1000

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The Snowman

Murder On The Orient Express

Downsizing

Submergence

I will have red with cioppino(fish). And I will have a red with a smoked gouda and cheddar for that matter. Who says there has to be rules.

 

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My dad just came back from the Philippines and brought me Don Papa rum from Bacolod. I swear it will give Diplomatico and the really good Cuban rums a run for their money. The flavors are not entirely complex but very smooth and pleasant. Very strong vanilla and caramel notes with for me a coffee berry after taste. It would be sacrilege to have this with a mixer other than just ice. At most I will add a splash of ginger ale.

I haven't actually tasted Don Papa. Thanks for the tip!

Maybe I will take home another Diplomatico on my next trip.

Have to get reacquainted with it, for research purposes, to see how it squares up with Ddon Papa.

Actually, in rums, I have been getting my rocks off on just Bacardi Black. I love its nose - a real alcoholicky scent, which sends me to days gone past and how my grandfather's drinks smell like. lol!

Now I believe that the best drink is the drink that brings up faint memories of pleasant days gone by.

Cheers!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Google isn't the end all and be all of information.

 

It's all about taste. If it works for you, good, if not, no one is forcing you. Yes, gouda is much like cheddar. But not all cheddars, and not all goudas are created equal. An aged gouda can be quite nutty while remaining sharp, so it CAN go with a bold red.

 

There's only one rule, if you like it, go for it. If not, don't. Who says red wines don't go with fish? Or whites not with red meats? A dogmatic approach to anything food will limit your enjoyment. Proper knowledge? Only for those with no imagination.

 

On another note -

 

I went exploring a week or so ago in an area i haven't visited in almost 15 years. Paso Robles. It has changed! Where there were 30-40 wineries, now there are over a hundred.

 

Visited only a few in search of a good Paso Robles pinot.

 

Tobin James - good (not great) wine at a very affordable price point. Bang for the buck.

 

Hug - very limited wine selection (and production). For me that's a good thing. It means they concentrate on doing what they do well. Wonderful pinots - soft tannins, dried red cherries, cedar, and just a hint of muchsrooms. No barnyard but very clearly a pinot,with all,the complexity and character you'd expect. More Burgundian in style than Californian.

 

Windward - all they do is pinots. Nothing else. Same comment as at Hug - they do one thing and do it well. Mid-range price point and well worth the money.

 

Re-find - not a winery, a distillery. They take the second run grape juice, the.must, and even the seeds and stems, press one more time, then ferment and distill. They make what they call a vodka and a gin. The vodka is much like a grappa in character, but more neutral. The gin is redolent of,juniper berries and local herbs. Then there's the aged vodka. In a blind tasting you might even be tempted to call it a whiskey. You get the wood - mostly oak - and toast notes. There's a hint of sweetness (I think because it's grape-baed).

 

Come Christmas, i will be tasting the aged vodka against the Cuban rums I brought home, both neat and in what I've started calling a Rumhattan - a Manhattan made with dark rum, and a Cubanito - think Bloody Mary but think rum.

Good to see you back! and yes, there are a lot of trolls here. all they do is make provocative statements. as if he knows you that well to go head-to-head in a cheese challenge.

I'm curious about those Cuban rums you brought back. And hey, was that the trip you were talking about? Good for you and your pals. Fidel is dead but I don't know if it's for good or bad, for our rums and cigars, that is. hehe.

Regarding that Re-find gin that is redolent of juniper berries, i'm also now in the habit of taking a sip every now and then of our local Ginebra Premium Gin lol! It says it has juniper berries. I can't vouch for the veracity of that claim, but it's a good and aromatic drinking. Light on the palate and buzzes you good, as buzzes go.

In wines now I now find myself going lately for the South Americans - Chilean carmeneres and Argentine malbecs. I just find them more agreeable and pleasant now than all those Aussies I had before. But that's just a personal whim. Baka mag-react na naman mga trolls dito.

cheers! and on an end-note, I saw this old James Thurber cartoon in the New Yorker with this caption:

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

Clarks looks good. I was just checking them out last night.

Might be back to take a longer look.

Zak and Sara - Ben Folds

Las Vegas Turnaround - Hall & Oates

Urgent - Foreigner

How are the Bruins doing now? lol!

The Viking....

Right now, The Atlantic.

 

Wala na ang Egghead sa Robinsons Galleria?

I didn't even know that they had one in Galleria. What I'm sure of is that they have a store in Shang.

 

Where can I buy the Sennheiser HD 205, HD 335s and HD 429? Anyone knows where I can find these in physical stores?

I'm not sure if they will be available in Egghead, but Egghead sells only all kinds of headphones and earphones, plus, and this is the best thing about the store, all of the items for sale are for testing. Yung cabinet nila dun puno lahat ng earphone/headphone for testing. Not like other stores where not all items can be tested.

Egghead is in Shangrila mall in Shaw. Fifth level yata yun, in between the new East wing and the old wing. Just ask the guards para madali. This is where I bought my SoundMagic E10 In-Ear Headphone. Good luck!

Geoff Dyer

Michael Lewis

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

W.H. AUDEN

Welcome back or are you still discovering new territories

New territories in alcohol?

Very much in the hunt. In rhum, i haven't tasted anything better than that Diplomatico. In vodka, nothing still compares to Tito's Handmade Vodka, straight from Austin, Texas! I'd like to get my dry throat on that gin of yours. I can't find it anywhere here. In wines, been leaning towards malbecs and carmeneres these past few weeks, but nothing really special. Just those everyday-drinking Los Cardos. I find that South Americans are quite limited here. Same old brands I see.

So there. And yes, I'm taking quite a liking to this Bacardi Black. So pedestrian, but hey, the smell alone makes me fondly remember my dear grandpa, who never went to bed without some late night alcohol in his bloodstream. And he lived to a ripe old age of 84. Not bad. lol!

Cheers everyone! Share share!

 

 

 

Gentlemen:

 

Much as we love our Gins, let's give courtesy to the room owner. It's a wine lovers thread.

No worries! It's no-holds barred when it comes to drinks. lol! I remember talking about rum here, and vodka too.

Blood and Thunder - Mastodon

UP natin yung question. sana may sumagot..

No.

Do not buy scents and perfumes from cash n carry, shoppesville, virra mall, etc. It's cheap, but they're just knock-offs. Not the original stuff. All made in fukcin' China. It's so easy to clone scents. All you need is a good chemist, and almost all scent notes are synthetic. It's so easy to print labels. The bottles they get from emptied originals.

If you want to buy originals, the safest bet is to buy from Rustan's. They are the authorized dealers of so many perfumes. Also there's now a Jo Malone here (in Greenbelt), a Hermes, a Chanel. Of course you can buy safely in Paris, or Milan.

Either get the original, or else patronize local. Bench, I guess, has a perfume or cologne line. So with Afficionado, or Penshoppe, I think.

Don't go for fakes. Go original, or go local.

wry

"Sunny day

sweeping all the clouds away

On my way to where

the air is sweet.

Can you tell me how to get

how to get to Sesame Street"

Lol!

Nectarine.

Sometimes adding an -ine makes it sweeter than the original.

What's this thing about sulphites?

I read an article where the author said she felt dizzy after drinking some red wine. A friend of hers told her that it was because of the sulphites in wine. According to this apparently know-it-all friend, South American wines have no sulphites ,and also expensive wines.

I realized I also was not clear about this thing called sulphite. I kept reading it at the back labels of wine: "Contains sulphites", "Warning, contains sulphites", etc.

So I went to a wine store and looked at the Chilean carmeneres, syrahs, cabs and Argentine malbecs. To a bottle, all of them said: "Contains sulphites". On the theory that it could be they are cheap, I looked at some higher-priced South Americans. The same: "Contains sulphites." Hmmm, must be those really expensive boys. I took a look at a bottle that costs P10,000+. The same sulphite warning. Ah! maybe the French don't have it. Looking at the Bordeauxs and Medocs etc, all of them have sulphites. Even the Spanish riojas and tempranillos have them. Old World, New World, all of them. I don't know. I might be wrong.

so what gives? In Tagalog, that friend is "nagdudunung-dunungan".