Eiron wrote:
wrote:
Before we get too scientific I note that Scotch, Burbon and
Teqila seem to limit the RAO contributors' horizon.
Will no one stand up for Cognac (don't confuse it with "Brandy")?
Why limit your horizons to Cognac?
Armagnac can be good. Vecchia Romagna is OK for the casual drinker.
Asbach Uralt is too teutonic for me but some may appreciate the technology.
Carneros, from California, is as good as anything France can make.
And of course Calvados for breakfast....
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Eiron
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent - Tom Stoppard.
I bow to your encyclopedic depth of experience. Don't know Vecchia
Romagna or Carneros. It might be "as good as anything France can make"
but... I have yet to taste a California Cabernet that comes close to
good
Bordeaux such as Chateau Pavie of a good vintage year. Sadly in
impecunious retirement memories only remain.
Armagnac to me is nowhere near good Cognac. Asbach Uralt had
better not be mentioned in the context.
Don't know Calvados. But, (perhaps I'm partial for etrhnic reasons),
nothing beats frozen potato Vodka such as Polish "Luksusova" or
Baczewski from Austria for casual drinking
(accompanied of course by piquant mouthful of salty herring)
Ludovic Mirabel.