Joined Sep 2003
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Puerto Rico/NYC
have a problem.
NO, NOT with the flavor of the bourbon. :neer:
:neer: umpkin: :neer:
HA, HA, made ya look, made ya look,
Inside ya mutha's pocketbook!!! :cryinlaugh: :neer:
:sm_angel:
Okay Bloof, you made us look inside our mother's pocketbooks.
:dunno: :duh: :duh:
I picked up a bottle of The Classic Cask 18 Year Old Bourbon Thursday night, trying deperately to escape a city I had been working and running around in since Wednesday afternoon. NYC is one place I don't like to be on St. Patrick's Day, and I got a generous helping of them on the 9:02 on Track 37 headed out of town last night. They were remarkably well behaved. Not like the years before Giuliani, when stuff could get out of hand.
I had picked up this treat from one of my favorite labels at Astor Wines, a newly discovered haven of my favorite whiskeys for a "walk-out price" of $65.16. I also got to have my first tasting last night after arriving home and getting settled. My initial impression is that it will be competitive for at least a Top 10 spot, and is quite the cousin of it's 20 year old version, which already sits at No. 3 on my Top 25. That one performed the almost unheard of feat of edging out Booker's for a spot on my list. Booker's stayed at No. 3 for a LONG time.
As for my little opening joke, the "problem" is in the typing on the label. And trust me, I can tell that these are computerized, laser printed labels. The Classic Cask has a very striking, if demure and odd looking label presentation. The labels for each batch probably come in sheets and The Classic Cask probably has formats for which they type the dates, batch nos. etc., into a program and it prints out in the exact spot it's supposed to. The labels are subsequently affixed to each bottle.
We're all familiar with simply formatted, laser printer labels that companies use for many purposes, including shipping. Familiar typefaces, the company logo. The Classic Cask has a very wonderful way of incorporating information into their labels that an experienced hobbyist like me is interested in. So, I have no complaint. But what I have a problem with is that there's been a mistake on this bottle's label, which gives rise to questions as to what it actually is.
:cryinlaugh:
The Classic Cask is quite literal in their labeling. On the empty bottle of my 20 year old bourbon, it says it was distilled in 1983 and bottled in 2004. The reason it doesn't say 21 years old is because bourbon is usually distilled late in the year and bottled early in the year. The bourbon was actually probably about 20 years and a few months old, but it's not allowed to be called 21 until at least it's 21st birthday.
But this bottle of supposedly 18 year old bourbon says distilled 1981 and bottled in 2003, which would make it at LEAST 21 years old if we go by what I said in the above paragraph.
SO, either The Classic Cask has just released an unnanounced product, a 21 year old bourbon, or somebody typed 1981 instead of 1984 into the computer program that spits out their labels. OR, as my Sensei, Master Whiskey 13th (out of 12 Dans) Dan, our own Hollowe Pointe, The Whiskey Dogg Detective taught me once, . . .
sometimes they finish aging it a certain amount of time and put it into stainless steel holding tanks until an undetermined future bottling date, which could be YEARS hence. :wink:
For now, it's The Classic Cask 18 year old bourbon, vying for a lofty spot on my Top 25.
NO, NOT with the flavor of the bourbon. :neer:
:neer: umpkin: :neer:
HA, HA, made ya look, made ya look,
Inside ya mutha's pocketbook!!! :cryinlaugh: :neer:
:sm_angel:
Okay Bloof, you made us look inside our mother's pocketbooks.
:dunno: :duh: :duh:
I picked up a bottle of The Classic Cask 18 Year Old Bourbon Thursday night, trying deperately to escape a city I had been working and running around in since Wednesday afternoon. NYC is one place I don't like to be on St. Patrick's Day, and I got a generous helping of them on the 9:02 on Track 37 headed out of town last night. They were remarkably well behaved. Not like the years before Giuliani, when stuff could get out of hand.
I had picked up this treat from one of my favorite labels at Astor Wines, a newly discovered haven of my favorite whiskeys for a "walk-out price" of $65.16. I also got to have my first tasting last night after arriving home and getting settled. My initial impression is that it will be competitive for at least a Top 10 spot, and is quite the cousin of it's 20 year old version, which already sits at No. 3 on my Top 25. That one performed the almost unheard of feat of edging out Booker's for a spot on my list. Booker's stayed at No. 3 for a LONG time.
As for my little opening joke, the "problem" is in the typing on the label. And trust me, I can tell that these are computerized, laser printed labels. The Classic Cask has a very striking, if demure and odd looking label presentation. The labels for each batch probably come in sheets and The Classic Cask probably has formats for which they type the dates, batch nos. etc., into a program and it prints out in the exact spot it's supposed to. The labels are subsequently affixed to each bottle.
We're all familiar with simply formatted, laser printer labels that companies use for many purposes, including shipping. Familiar typefaces, the company logo. The Classic Cask has a very wonderful way of incorporating information into their labels that an experienced hobbyist like me is interested in. So, I have no complaint. But what I have a problem with is that there's been a mistake on this bottle's label, which gives rise to questions as to what it actually is.
:cryinlaugh:
The Classic Cask is quite literal in their labeling. On the empty bottle of my 20 year old bourbon, it says it was distilled in 1983 and bottled in 2004. The reason it doesn't say 21 years old is because bourbon is usually distilled late in the year and bottled early in the year. The bourbon was actually probably about 20 years and a few months old, but it's not allowed to be called 21 until at least it's 21st birthday.
But this bottle of supposedly 18 year old bourbon says distilled 1981 and bottled in 2003, which would make it at LEAST 21 years old if we go by what I said in the above paragraph.
SO, either The Classic Cask has just released an unnanounced product, a 21 year old bourbon, or somebody typed 1981 instead of 1984 into the computer program that spits out their labels. OR, as my Sensei, Master Whiskey 13th (out of 12 Dans) Dan, our own Hollowe Pointe, The Whiskey Dogg Detective taught me once, . . .
sometimes they finish aging it a certain amount of time and put it into stainless steel holding tanks until an undetermined future bottling date, which could be YEARS hence. :wink:
For now, it's The Classic Cask 18 year old bourbon, vying for a lofty spot on my Top 25.