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oyster  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FiveThirtyEight on "The Weird World of Expensive Wine"

I've got a few years until I really have to start worrying about what's going to give me a worse hangover. I'm trying to think of the most expensive I've bought and honestly it was probably that time I bought the $15 bottle because they were out of the $10.

This reminds me of when I accidentally went to a fancy restaurant because it was part of the Inn I was staying at that had $1000 bottles of wine and I ordered a Caesar. Clamato juice comes in 3 sizes: Why would I bother buying one this small (Small), Enough for myself ( Medium), and Enough to share with a few people(Party Size). This restaurant had the bottle so small I wouldn't even bother buying it for myself and they had it for the entire restaurant. It's a toss up between that moment and when I started googling things on the menu that I realized this place wasn't really my kind of place.





kleinbl00  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought we could be friends until I discovered you drink Caesars.

I bought a bottle of Perrier Jouet Fleur de Champagne to crack open when my daughter was born. It was delicious, and we still have the bottle 'cuz it's gorgeous. I bought a bottle of cask-strength Macallan in July 2004 to celebrate Kerry's victory over Bush... and then didn't get to drink that shit until Obama was president. And it wasn't good. It was icky. I poured the last quarter of it out, I think. Macallan isn't bad scotch but that cask-strength shit was cursed or something.

When I was dating the rich girl one of her rich friend's dads gave her a bottle of wine as old as she was (1976). When he found out we didn't drink it he cracked one open, had a glass, re-corked it and sent the bottle along so we'd be forced to drink it. It was French and delicious but not, like, crazy good. When I made it known to him that we welcomed champagne we tended to get five or six bottles at a time, always left over from parties, the cheapest being Piper-Heidsieck. Also good, but not good enough to not drink Freixenet. Or, lately, Barefoot because who the fuck pays $14 for Freixenet. The rich girl's dad used to drink vicariously through me so for my college graduation I scored a bottle of Hennessy XO. Also good, but not nearly as good as Kelt VSOP.

The biggest bummer about Washington State is a $60 bottle of Kelt VSOP is $110 with taxes.

oyster  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well then, now I'll be drinking a Caesar as I finish my list of winter activities in Banff just to bother you. It's great so far.

I'm sure one day I'll branch out and start drinking fancy alcohol however for now that will be when other people buy me shots. Or that random person who brings fancy champagne to the party.

goobster  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hang on... you didn't drink the cask strength straight did you?!?

All whisky is watered down after it comes out of the cask. The point of cask strength is that you get to adjust the amount of water you add, to make different flavors bloom. Nobody is expected to drink it like that...

kleinbl00  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

C'mon now. What kind of barbarian do you think I am?

This stuff tasted like brassy funk watered, on rocks, watered on rocks, with drambuie, with drambuie and water, with drambuie and water and rocks...

...and I've been known to buy Old Crow.

goobster  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok... I figured that was the case, but I just had to be sure...

b_b  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I thought we could be friends until I discovered you drink Caesars.

To be fair to oyster, I think 100% of Canadians drink Caesars regularly. I find the bloody mary and all its derivatives to be insufferable, but you can't blame a zebra for having stripes.

kleinbl00  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not so. In Vancouver they're available, but not celebrated. In Victoria they're assumed but not forced. In Tofino they're virtually unknown.

oyster  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The people there are way to trending to waste their time on Caesars.

kleinbl00  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The idea of Tofino being "trendy" is comically awesome.

oyster  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Super trendy with their artisan everything and shatter.

b_b  ·  3000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm only familiar with the Ontario set. They're ubiquitous there.