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Post by MartinT on Sept 23, 2022 5:07:12 GMT
Surely a trip to France on the Eurostar would quickly sort that out?
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Post by palace on Sept 23, 2022 8:45:22 GMT
Surely a trip to France on the Eurostar would quickly sort that out? Probably, however after long searching I knew where I could get both, it was just my way of indicating rarity. I am on blood thinners after symmetrical blood clots on both lungs due to pneumonia couple of weeks in ICU. At the dinner after the wedding of my Son & daughter-in-law last week I had 2 small weak Greek beers; alcohol & Rivaroxaban is not a good combination, my days of pints of gin & tonic on a summer afternoon (yes really) are history. |
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Post by HD Music & Test on Sept 23, 2022 9:54:10 GMT
Arh, the joys of getting old it will come to us in the fullness of time
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 23, 2022 10:26:21 GMT
I haven't had a nice bottle of Armagnac in a long time - I'd like to indulge.
I gave up buying decent Cognac a long time ago - you used to get a bottle of Courvoisier XO for 50 quid, now it's over 100.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 23, 2022 12:41:15 GMT
I haven't had a nice bottle of Armagnac in a long time - I'd like to indulge. I gave up buying decent Cognac a long time ago - you used to get a bottle of Courvoisier XO for 50 quid, now it's over 100. When Brandy was my tipple of choice the landlord of my local kept tempting me with a glass of Hennessy Paradis, except he always waited until the pub had closed, we were having " afters" and it was pointless trying to savour it after battering my palate to death all night, so I kept refusing. He had two bottles, and he eventually put one up as a raffle prize. I didn't win, but I bought it off of the guy who did, for forty quid.  It was (and still is) probably the most glorious thing I've ever drunk. |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 23, 2022 12:48:16 GMT
Yikes - Paradis is 1-2k a bottle!!
Never had a tipple like that.
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 23, 2022 12:51:15 GMT
I do have a 1982 Chateau Lynch Bages which I just hope has held up well in less than ideal storage conditions ...
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Post by palace on Sept 23, 2022 13:16:50 GMT
Yikes - Paradis is 1-2k a bottle!! Never had a tipple like that. After squaring up a problem in the late 1960's I was given of Warres 1927 Vintage Port. I would think bloody expensive today. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Sept 25, 2022 14:56:54 GMT
A bit late to party. Welcome. Cool introduction.
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Post by palace on Sept 27, 2022 14:49:38 GMT
A bit late to party. Welcome. Cool introduction. Thank you for the welcome however I think this party is over. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Oct 3, 2022 4:32:22 GMT
We'll see about that.
*Cracks open a new bottle of The Kraken Rum*
A new brand I was just introduced to. Let's hear some BB King. Pure magic in the right moment at the right bar.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 3, 2022 5:10:32 GMT
Gosh, haven't heard from Tracy Chapman in a long time.
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Post by palace on Oct 3, 2022 11:38:27 GMT
We'll see about that. *Cracks open a new bottle of The Kraken Rum* A new brand I was just introduced to. Let's hear some BB King. Pure magic in the right moment at the right bar. Boy am I pleased to be proved wrong, especially being the son of a RN stoker on a heavy cruiser & grand son of a stoker on a coal fired submarine (K Class) GD died 3 weeks before I was born. At about 18 months old at Christmas 1950 I drained the glass my Great Grandad had poured of 1950 genuine navy neaters (because of their shifts stokers rum ration was not watered down to prevent storage) I went to a leaving do for a friend my father also knew at a Royal Navy Club dad had Alzheimer's got talking to other ex-matloes as was my friend when they heard that Grandad had 3 K class sink under him he died at 55 from the effects of the fumes/emphysema though still served another 8 years in cluding the 1st RN boat to have a name not just be numbered HMS Pandora N42. I Was given visiting rights when ever I did I was given for dad a Britvic bottle with a good ration of navy rum from the supply that was bought up in bulk when the Royal Navy rum ration was stopped. Having visited Hamburg with my wife a few times I discovered a whole new range of very good Rum's, well worth seeking out if like me your a rum aficionado. No more alas. TAS is like me if it works try it & keep going. |
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It was (and still is) probably the most glorious thing I've ever drunk.
