If they make some absinthe that does not taste like nasty black licorice, I might try it again. I think a lot of its recent popularity is from the taboo of it being or having been 'illegal' for some time.
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Jeff C Goodhall <[email protected]> wrote: > As a Scotsman who grew up in a small town with its own distillery that goes > back hundereds of years I find this conversation quite amusing. Now living > in Prague i find it strange no one has mentioned Absinthe the ranges, > flavours and history of this drink nearly rivals that of my own nations > choice. > > Vodka I cannot comment on being in eastern europe I am surrounded by some of > the highest standards but also due to dumb tourists some of the lowest ( > Tesco make their own vodka here and even with redbull the taste is quite > overpowering and not in a good way! ) :) > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond E. Feist" > <[email protected]> > To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 3:26 AM > Subject: Re: Scotch Question and grumble about Magicians getting a TV show > deal > > > > On Oct 14, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Nick Andrews wrote: > >> Hi Ray, >> >> How about vodka? There are a couple made in of all places, Texas, >> that are quite good. Tito's, with the cheesy copper-colored cap is as >> good as Stoli. And there's, but I can't recall the name. I think it >> is something River with a frog on the label. > > > Tito's Handmade Vodka. Only pot still vodka made on the planet, from Austin, > Texas. Very crisp and clean. I like it a great deal. > > Vodka is difficult. First, you judge it on "heat" rather than flavor. > Really fine vodka is smooth and leaves no "burn" on the tongue. Most people > don't care because most people use it in mixed drinks, but on the rocks with > a squeeze of lime is my choice. At the bottom you have pain remover, and in > the middle a huge range of pretty interchangeable stuff. You can't do a > blind tasting and tell Belvedere, Stolichnaya, Grey Goose, or Russian > Standard. They're all going to be pretty much the same, nice. In the > really high end, you have a few that are smooth and tangy without any heat, > like Ciriq, Cavali, and Imperia. What a lot of vodka distillers now are > doing are a huge number of flavored (infused) vodkas, everything from orange > to pepper, wheatgrass, green tea, or anything else they can dream up. One > particularly good one is a Napa CA distiller Charvres which has a Blood > Orange (large, dark fruit Mexican oranges for those of you far from Southern > California) which is very tasty. You're also seeing open peat stilled, very > scotch like, from a couple of producers, Effen in Holland being the first I > tried. > > The best thing about Vodka is you can find some very reasonably priced good > Vodkas, like YES! Crater Lake, and others. > > Best, R.E.F. > ----- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
