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Old Forester 117 Series Bottled in Bond a Distillery Release That We Wish Was a Bigger Bottle · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Incredible flavours, even better stories.
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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  I got a good one. Really good one?
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  Yes. Do you know what that sound is?
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  It's no echo, which means the bottle is almost full in this case.
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  It's very close to being full.
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  You wouldn't never get a job in my bar the way you're tinging away
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  at the top of the glasses.
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  You're going to chip Now, what are you doing?
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  I spilt some. What are we drinking?
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  Stop spilling it.
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  Well, what a good question.
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  I mean, I suppose this is the question you ask every night.
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  This is an old Forester, and it's the 117 series.
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  It's a really cute little bottle.
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  It's a tiny, tiny bottle.
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  It has its head for scale.
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  Sorry, this is only if you're watching on YouTube.
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  About the size of your face, if you're not.
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  This is the Bottled in Bond release in the 117 series.
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  It It was released on July 2023, and it's Bottled in Bond, so it's 100 proof.
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  What can you tell me about this bottle, H? Because there's a...
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  Wait, let's do a little cheers. Oh, no, it's all right.
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  Okay. Cheers.
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  Old Forrester. Well, no.
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  Old Forrester, sorry. Of course.
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  I've been excited about this bottle for a while.
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  He's just nosed it, and it's knocked him out.
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  Oh, wow. It's very pleasing on the nose.
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  Oh, that's so good.
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  Wow. Why is that so good on the nose?
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  It's like... Yum, that's really- Dessert heaven.
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  I've just walked into a bakery.
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  That is one of the better Old Forrester noses I've ever-
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  Why is it such a small bottle? Why is it such a small bottle?
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  Okay, all right.
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  Sorry, go and tell the story because I- Although this one we didn't intend to buy.
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  This is why I'm like, I was nervous it was going to be really
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  good because it's such a small bottle.
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  Buttery caramel vanilla.
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  It's like a delicious dessert that you know you shouldn't be eating.
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  Well, Tate's having his little dessert moment over there.
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  I'm going to continue my story.
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  Pecan pie.
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  We were at the Old Forrester Distillery in Kentucky, and we had obviously a alcohol
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  limit coming back into Australia, so we'd already bought a few
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  different bottles elsewhere.
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  We had Old Forrester back at home anyway.
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  Because can you get it here? Yeah, Forrester.
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  So you can get some more Forrester here.
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  So we hadn't bought any bottles because we knew we could get some back in Australia.
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  But I had one of their delicious...
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  They sell these delicious chocolates, which you've probably heard me talk
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  about for marshmallow chocolates.
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  I won't go into detail.
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  But also I was purchasing one of my favourite T-shirts.
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  It's like, Old Forrester never gets old.
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  I liked it because everyone always teases me about how old I am.
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  I was purchasing just a T-shirt and the chocolates.
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  No bourbon Because of our alcohol limit.
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  When I went up to the counter, the lady pulled this out from behind the desk and
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  she's like, We got a few of these left.
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  It's only one per customer. Would you like one?
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  Answers, yes. Would you like one?
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  These are our limited They didn't have a...
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  She said there was a limited release, and they were selling them, and we
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  happened to be there, and it was little, so I figured that.
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  I think that's what goes me out of the line.
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  I was like, We can squeeze it in our bag.
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  So we haven't spent much time in Ila or the other big distillers
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  Distillery regions.
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  But in Kentucky, it's a thing that if you get to the
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  distillery on the right day- Yeah, you just have to be there.
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  That they're releasing a thing.
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  And because we like to be in Kentucky in September when they like
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  to do the nice things.
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  Well, they had releases before then, but they still had some left.
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  And I was just like, Oh, Forests are limited.
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  I couldn't say no.
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  So I've gone ahead and tasted that while you were telling that story.
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  Yes. What's the taste, Dave?
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  It's a lovely, rich, bourbony goodness.
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  It's got a lovely complexity to it that reminded me…
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  I don't know if I'm making this stuff up, obviously.
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  I love when bourbon takes you places.
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  I was taken to…
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  This is far too specific, so you're going to have to…
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  This is not going to be…
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  This is going to be terrible. Tell us, Dave.
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  It took me into the tent, the Old Forester tent at Kentucky Burbon
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  Festival last year.
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  Is it called the President's Select?
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  Is that what that bottle's called?
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  The one that we're tasting all day.
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  You know how they have these bottles?
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  I think they did a birthday bourbon at one point.
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  I did the President's Select.
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  I think I've got the name wrong.
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  This is very of that.
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  That's so ridiculous.
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  No one should believe that that's true because I'm not that good at this.
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  Close your eyes and take it. It takes you there.
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  No, but it makes sense.
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  It's an old forestry, and it's- It's really lovely.
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  So good. I'm so sad the bottle is so little.
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  Because it's also one that it's not like, Oh, I could have quite a few of those.
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  Sorry, I could have quite a few of those, but it's not gentle and lovely and the
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  one you want to open your night with.
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  It's got a lovely long finish.
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  Yeah, it's deep and rich.
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  And you could sit there just sipping a glass for a while because the flavours
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  keep changing almost as they stay in your mouth.
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  I agree with that.
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  I know you talk about your favourite T-shirt and those Madesca, which
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  is the name of that chocolate.
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  What else do you have fond memories of at Old Forrester?
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  I don't know whether it was one of the first ones where we got to see them Like,
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  chow the barrels and stuff, because they do that at all different distilleries.
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  But I really liked seeing them do it there.
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  I think it must have been it because it was one of the first ones we did
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  early on, the Old Forrester one? Maybe.
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  I just No, I don't think so.
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  It's the one where I pushed the button and the barrel was charged.
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  Was that early?
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  I was early on because I was very excited about seeing a barrel chart.
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  I can that was probably maybe it was one of our first.
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  And then you go to heaps of distillers and watch them to do it heaps.
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  But I just remember the Old Forrester, that charring and still like when I get
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  those flavours, it's there that I think of.
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  So Old Forrester is part of the Brown foremen group.
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  In fact, if you look on the top of that, it has- A little brown foremen sticker.
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  What has George Garvin-Brown's name on it? It says the word founder.
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  I actually don't know if that's...
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  Maybe I wonder if the 117 has something specifically to do with him.
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  But he's the guy who was mates with Forrester, who did have
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  two R's in his name. And now it's only one hour.
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  Yeah, they dropped an hour after he died. I know.
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  But Brown Foreman is a very big group of distilleries.
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  It also has in it Jack Daniels and Woodford, Woodford Reserve.
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  So that's all in the same group.
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  And there's others, though.
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  They're the big ones that immediately spring to mind.
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  But of the distilleries in Kentucky that we like visiting, Old
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  Forrester has this really interesting place in my heart because of
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  the Well, I love the juice.
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  I think they have really good bourbons.
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  Yeah, I love the dessertiness of their bourbon.
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  I also like, I don't know, there's this old fashionedness to it,
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  vibe that's really cool.
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  Sometimes you want...
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  Even the labels in the bottles and stuff, it's just this very old-school...
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  I don't know. I've always loved it.
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  But they're also really good at staying relevant.
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  And I reckon this particular...
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  The way that they do these 117 series, I'm not sure if they're still doing them or
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  not, but it's a distillery on their release.
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  That thing is really interesting to me as well, because they also do the birthday
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  bourbon, where you can go into that. I love.
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  I know.
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  I go every year, I go on the lottery hoping for a birthday bourbon.
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  Because you don't win the bourbon, you win permission to buy it.
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  It's so cool.
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  So this scarcity thing they do, they do it so well.
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  Yeah, but they can do it in that sometimes people create for
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  scarcity's sake, whereas they produce this amazing liquid that tastes delicious.
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  Obviously, I think it's one of the things I love about bourbon is so much of it.
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  Yes, you can mass-produce different ones, obviously, but so many of them produce
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  just limited releases of different ones.
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  When you find ones like Old Forrester, I
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  haven't ever had an Old Forrester I don't like.
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  There's other bourbons where some of them I like, some of them I love, some
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  of them aren't my cup of tea.
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  Old Forrester, I've liked every single one because- I don't think I have loved every
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  single one, but I've loved 90% of them already.
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  They always have this dessertiness to them for me.
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  It's like a good finish to the night.
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  Yeah, and this one isn't any different. Can you do me a favour?
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  Can you nose that again?
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  You know how they say when it opens up, you get these different things?
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  I'm almost getting… I don't almost wear this as a perfume.
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  You still get that original, like that lovely pecan, caramely thing.
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  But I don't know, it's something extra fragrant about this.
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  There's a lot of vanilla there.
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  I agree that.
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  A lot of vanilla.
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  Really fluffy cupcake, buttery, fluffy vanilla cupcake on the nose.
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  That's good.
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  But I reckon this is the result as well of a really good bourbon that is just
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  opening up as well, which is really great.
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  And it's all part of the fun of a nice bourbon, right?
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  So do you know about the The idea of a neck pour?
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  No. I've heard of it, but fell as in.
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  The idea of a neck pour is that when you first open a whiskey, the first thing that
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  comes out of the bottle is potentially going to be different to
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  what the rest of it is.
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  Because it hasn't had as much chance to get air on it.
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  So you're saying that because we've opened a brand new bottle
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  and that we've had the first pour, that it's not- Some people say
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  the neck pour is rubbish. It's almost like a joke.
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  You could almost tip it out, the neck pour, because it's so bad.
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  You're saying it's going to get better?
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  Are you promising me this, Dave?
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  I'm not saying any of these things.
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  I'm just reiterating what someone else has said.
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  But when you first open a whiskey and then you pour it in a glass, it hasn't had much
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  chance to have air on it.
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  Anyway, I think that, yes, this might potentially even get even better
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  over the next few minutes. That excites me.
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  We didn't let it open up. No.
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  Once we brought it in, we really pulled it in and just went for it, which is good on
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  us because that's good enthusiasm from us. But that's fine, too.
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  If we let it sit there for 10 minutes, this episode would have been trash.
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  But you know. Very dull and boring.
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  Isn't that exciting, though?
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  The first bit, even though it might get better, that
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  we'll never have this exact flavour again because that's the neck pour.
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  Oh, well, that's interesting you put it like that.
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  Yeah, sure. That is a bit- It will get better.
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  We might not get this exact.
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  Oh, it's so vanilla-y. It's so vanilla.
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  It's so vanilla.
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  All right, well, we'll settle in and enjoy this.
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  You see if you can find yourself a nice expression of Vult Forest, but you
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  probably want to find this one. Sorry.
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  Sorry.
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  Definitely can't get this one in Australia.
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