Re: Recipes for Eggnog whose got one?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: maggot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Buy: One litre Remy Martin XO (or better) Cognac.
Drink: Several snifters Remy Martin XO (or better)Cognac.
Forget: Christmas, and that disgusting sweet bullshit.
What could be simpler?
Unless your the 1%, then drink this:
Production
The cognac is manufactured using grapes from the Grande Champagne territory of Cognac, France. It is blended from 1200 eaux de vie, some more than a century in age. Then it is aged in tiercons (oak barrels that are several hundred years old) in its own cellar.
On 15 June 2011 the cognac house launched a Jeroboam bottle of Louis XIII,[1] a magnum decanter with the price of €16,000 ($22,600).
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Mmmm... good stuff. About 10 years ago I was at the Airport Omni in San Antonio, drinking after a meeting. Behind the bar was a bottle of Remy under lock and key. $250 per serving was going rate, of course, I passed. Then walks in some big shot business guy, who just closed what appeared to be a multi-million dollar deal. He tells everyone, all 3 of us at the bar, drinks were on him. I'm like, "seriously", he says, "sure, whatever your flavor", so I ordered two of the Remy. Turns out, I got the last of it and there was some weird tradition that he who gets the last sip, get's the bottle. I still have it in my cabinet, guess it's fairly valuable.
Was it good? Oh yes. Would I drop that kind of dime on it? Not with my income, but someone else's for sure.