So, as most of you know, I was pretty sick earlier this week. Hell, I guess technically I still am. After coming in from work last night and collapsing to sleep earlier this morning, I woke just before the girlfriend ran off to a doc appointment. She handed me a partition box with various bottles from the liquor store for either friends or family, the store being a few blocks down (family works there, we know the owner, and it is the ONLY place that I can get a good variety of bourbons at). She asks me to take it in as she is leaving, saying it is on the porch... 'Oh, and there is something in there for you, you'll know which when you see it'
It's not Pappy Van Winkle in price bracket, but dollar-for-dollar this is one of the better whiskies out there:
10 years old, single barrel. This barrel is part of an annual trip the store owner takes to the Buffalo Trace Distillery every year to hand select a single barrel of some of their various flagship products at BTD... And it's MINE.