13 Feb 2022 12:05 pm
But the real love of my life is an Italian red wine from the region my family came from.GHETTOBLASTER » 12 Feb 2022, 9:30 pm » wrote: ↑ Howdy Jinn..and thanks for your generosity
How does one acquire a taste for gin martinis....?
I love gin..I love that "spruce / hemlock bite" that vodka doesn't have.
My way to drink it is to take a sip out of a can of orange or grapefruit soda and then top it off with cheap Gordons Gin.
Pretty barbaric...I know.
Also..what are your favorite brands of gin...?
My Great, Great, Great Grandfather owned an immense wine farm there, of this particular wine.
Bequeathed it all to his oldest son (letting his 16 siblings fend for themselves) who in turn sold it to set up a truck company.
LoL
I get it imported directly from Italy every year . . . like 90 cases a year, including the 30 that my wife -(who has developed a taste for the wine also)- kills in a year.
It goes for about $100 a bottle.
But occasionally I get hold over extremely rare old bottles from, say, 1958 vintage . . . two of these I will have sent to me shortly.
What I now have are . . . 1961, 1969, 1971, 1972 and few more . . . for special occasions.
These are significantly more costly than the others.