NW-Bound
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2008
- Messages
- 35,712
Thought your son had come up with a brandy that was tops in your taste test but quite economical? And you didn't divulge the brand... tend to remember that kind of thing.. Now should you choose to share that information I miight even buy some when we get down to the land of the cheap booze California.
Edit: can't shop today - we've been approaching a $500,000 step. Playing silly games like making sure the quarterly checks are dated the 15th, checking all accounts for loan or rent payments. Yeterday the market kicked us within a few hundred dollars of the mark - and social security deposits will carry us across. The market is making us rather breathless this morning..
Ah, here's someone with a good memory. But so do I, and I do not recall saying that it was "tops", only surprisingly good for the price, and my palate may not be that great anyway.
This American brandy could be loaded with caramel. My son's palate is still very good for detecting caramel as he demonstrated in a blind test, where I could not. He was mainly proud of his discovery of this bargain, which I had to say tasted better than the bottom VS grade of imported Cognac slightly more expensive, or in the same price range.
I searched and found that post of mine. See below. Sorry Calmloki, but you can go to a Total Wine store, and bought quite a few of the inexpensive brandy that they have, and it will not cost but $100 altogether. You will have fun checking them out for yourself, and the ones that you do not like, you can always use to deglaze steak frying pans to make sauce.
But as mentioned, either American brandies are getting better or my palate is shot, but when I was in my 20s did not like them at all and now find them quite drinkable.
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/indicators-of-wealth-82835-13.html#post1762490
Last edited: