Your alcohol stash is very familiar - we have all sorts of odd things in bottles in a cupboard in the utility room. I think most of them came with us... I do like a wee nip of the blackberry brand when the weather is cold, but otherwise I never really think of it being there at all.
What I actually use: brandy for flambés and Noilly Prat Original or Dolin Dry French vermouth in the biggest bottle I can find, as there's no point buying a bottle of white wine we won't finish just to bung half a cup into a risotto. The mini bottles: Hendricks gin for the two occasions a year P. will adjust his meds to allow for a gin and tonic; Woodford Reserve straight bourbon - some of which his employer sent along for a virtual work party (?) and I am happy to slosh into my quarterly "Suffering Bastard"s; Bailey's and Frangelico for the Christmas pan of "Boozy Baked French Toast"; and Kraken spiced dark rum for use in the good hot cocoa.
Our alcohol stash has stuff that must be 20-25 years old but alcohol never spoils so there it sits. Manolo has a single malt collection but only drinks it every now and then or when we have visitors.
Well, not in the mountains - Snoqualmie Pass opened Monday and this morning I-90's closed westbound 10 miles from Ellensberg; ice has left jackknived trailers all over the road. Down here at sea level it's 11C/52F and very gently raining, but last night Neighbour M. drove me the two blocks from the studio, it was coming down so hard.
*walks over, opens cabinet* There is ABSINTHE in here! Sherry, madeira AND marsala! A very large bottle of decent Irish whiskey that I haven't made an appreciable dent in. Then there's all the wine P.'s employer keeps getting from vendors - this is not a side of the tech industry I'm very familiar with - and while I'm not a supertaster, I definitely hit "bitter" before getting to "delicious" with reds. Hilariously, DS has inherited his (complete teetotaler) father's palate around wine and finds it all yummy, so I can shift a fair amount of it to him.
*accepts the gifts with all due solemnity* I did manage a walk to the shops in an interval between showers, and oh, did I need it!
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And then there is everything else. *sighs again*
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So it wasn't a warm-up?
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Well, not in the mountains - Snoqualmie Pass opened Monday and this morning I-90's closed westbound 10 miles from Ellensberg; ice has left jackknived trailers all over the road. Down here at sea level it's 11C/52F and very gently raining, but last night Neighbour M. drove me the two blocks from the studio, it was coming down so hard.
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*hands you an umbrella, waders, and an ark*
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*accepts the gifts with all due solemnity* I did manage a walk to the shops in an interval between showers, and oh, did I need it!
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