Well, I rather like absinthe, too, (I believe that I may have mentioned this fact somewhere or sometime in some post or other
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The Macallan 17 fine Oak looks lovely; is it as smooth as its venerable vintage might suggest?
One night recently, in our dodgy little dive, I came across an elegantly smooth 18 year old single distillery whisky in an impressive squat bottle, colour almost black, which I must investigate further. Not least to confirm how to spell the strange Scottish word with which it identifies itself
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However, a colleague returned from a brief break with a bottle of (a one litre bottle of) Johnnie Walker Blue Label for me last week. I have refused to open it (a mere matter of principle) until I had reimbursed the generous soul who transported it across oceans and continents so that it could be surrendered into my tender care
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For now, it sits in my cupboard, along with a bottle of XO Hennessy (cognac) and a good many bottles of extremely good Italian wine.
Other shelves play host to coffee from Intelligentsia (Honey Badger, no less, along with some of their standard Black Cat espresso) and Illy, along with robust & rugged leather coasters, (from Saddleback, thank you, Shrink), porcelain mugs, many books, a Bialetti French press, more books, wine and beer glasses, cans of beer (Stella, Jupiler, Budvar),
the word well-stocked comes to mind
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Aged cheeses from the Netherlands and some others from Italy are in my fridge
..and tins and tins of olives
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