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Kirkland Bottled in Bond a Costco Bourbon from Barton 1792 Juice · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Aussie bourbon lovers sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  I often wonder about the science of what makes a bottle pop good.
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  I don't know, Dave, I'm not a scientist, so I can't help you there.
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  But I had some of this last night.
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  So that's why tonight we're drinking a Kirkland bottle
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  in Bond Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey. There you go.
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  H.
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  This is not a normal 1792, even though it is a 1792.
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  So look at that.
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  What's unique about this, H, what have we got here?
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  Let's talk about the thing that's wacky here.
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  Well, it's 1792, but it's not in a normal 1792 bottle.
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  It's in like a tall, skinny bottle.
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  With a green label.
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  You'll see it in the podcast artwork or if you're watching along on YouTube.
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  You can see this thing. So it's very different.
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  The 1792 is printed very, very small on the big green label on the front and it's
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  a very, very different bottle from a normal 1792.
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  Because what does a normal 1792 look like?
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  It's like really wide and stunning and yeah, it doesn't look anything like this.
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  This is more like a big bottle of wine.
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  Whereas the 1792 is.
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  Yeah, wide and glamorous and yeah, it's.
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  Almost like kind of Gatsby esque Australia bottle.
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  Yeah, this thing looks like something you'd get at Costco,
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  which obviously exactly where you got it. Yeah.
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  So we all know about sourced whiskey.
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  Yeah, we've spoken about this a lot in the past.
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  79 Parton 1792 is one of these distilleries that does definitely
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  sell their whisky to other places. But.
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  So this is.
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  They've sold a 1792 to someone else and then they've bottled it up like this.
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  Not just someone else, it's Costco.
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  Like we definitely know it's Costco because it's got Kirkland on it.
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  That's Costco's home brand. Yeah.
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  So they've put a 1792 into a Costco bottle in one Kentucky
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  straight bourbon whiskey bottle.
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  Well, you can talk about it however you want, but it's.
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  Is it exactly the same liquid is what I want to know.
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  What do you mean, exactly the same?
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  Well, like, if I was to go to Dan Murphy's and buy a nice expensive 1792,
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  and if I was to go to Costco and buy this Kirkland 1792, am I
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  drinking the same thing? Are you Drinking exactly the same thing.
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  Well, am I drinking?
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  It's almost impossible to tell because they don't put an age statement on.
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  Although the.
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  The 1792 guys don't do this either.
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  But the mash bill, we know the mash bill is that classic button.
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  1792 mash bill.
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  So it's the same 1792 mash bill.
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  74% corn, 80% rye, 8% barley.
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  But for some reason, and there's people online
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  who speculate that it's because they must have bought so much of it that they're
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  allowed to put that it's Barton 7900, 200.
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  Because there's others who have.
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  We know who have sourced from there.
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  I think Calumet Farm is one, which I love calling it Farm.
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  And I've got a bottle. Awesome.
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  Maybe I don't have it anymore, but it might be empty.
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  But where. It's kind of speculated.
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  This is where they got their juice from. Yeah.
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  But they're not allowed to say or they haven't said or whatever it is.
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  So there's that sequence between the Costco one and the.
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  My word, said the bird. Yeah, yeah.
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  You want to get yourself a Spartan.
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  You want to get a $17.92 bottle in bond in the nice bottle, for a start.
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  You're not going to get it in a litre bottle like this.
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  Is this one litre or more? It's big.
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  That's pretty big. It's a litre.
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  Yeah.
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  You're definitely not going to get it for the same price.
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  I think this is going to be in Australian dollars, maybe 75, 80 bucks.
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  Yeah, I reckon the same, like just a 750 millilitres bottle of the.
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  In 1792 bottle is probably 250 or something like that.
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  Yeah.
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  So I, look, I straight up get a Go to get a Costco membership and get a bottle.
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  But together you've already saved your money.
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  I don't know.
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  I'm not clever enough to know how to go side by side with this.
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  Oh, we should do a side by side one.
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  But I reckon this is going to be nearly as good.
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  The question is. It's banging.
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  Is what it is for a silly home brand, ignore the label and drink the good juice.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Well, you know, it's.
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  You know it's the good juice because they've put it on the label.
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  Just bottle it in a different bottle.
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  Well, theoretically, I mean, of course, everything, you know, it's all going to be
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  slightly different and I can imagine they're going to pick what barrels
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  they're Going to give them.
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  And there's going to be all that kind of stuff, but I don't really understand.
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  They might not give them the really.
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  Good stuff, but it's still really good and it's still got buttons of E92 on it.
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  Right? Yeah, it's still got that delicious.
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  Oh, yum kind of cinnamon caramel.
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  Is that what you're getting? What are you getting, Dave?
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  Well, I've already had some to drink and it's.
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  It's really got that lovely round.
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  Yeah, it like hits the back of your mouth. Well, I.
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  It's.
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  I feel so silly saying caramel and vanilla because it.
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  Because it feels bourbon.
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  Caramel and vanilla and vanilla. That's what it should have.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Maybe some cherry.
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  It's good because sometimes when I have one that I don't particularly like,
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  I'm sure someone else would describe it with caramels and vanillas, but if it's a
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  bourbon I like, I know it's going to have that delicious, desserty, caramelly smell.
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  And yeah, maybe it's the dark berries and stuff that are kind of like driving
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  this one a little bit more for me.
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  But I don't know, I just really like it in a classic bourbon way.
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  And that lovely, you know, the bottom Bonsa.
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  It's that, you know, a little bit of heat.
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  Still a lovely, easy to drink kind of softness to it, I suppose,
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  or a drinkability to it.
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  But I never realised they were DSP12KY12. Yeah.
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  So they're one of these ones that's got an early.
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  Yeah, quite a. No, pay more attention to that.
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  So it brings us to this thing of like. So.
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  And we could bang on about source whiskey for a long time, but what about the.
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  Don't judge a bottle by its.
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  Don't judge a bottle by its colour.
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  Or a juice or a bourbon by its bottle.
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  What are the worst bourbon bottles?
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  Like, what are the ones that.
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  What are the ones that look crap, but then what's in there is good.
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  And it's clearly just a basic Costco design label in a big wine.
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  But I think we agree on that.
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  I'm not asking about this one, I'm saying what other ones?
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  I don't know, because the problem is, is when the bottle looks really pretty,
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  you're more likely to buy it, in my view. Anyway.
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  I resisted buying Old Forester for so long.
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  Old Forester is the least appealing brand name.
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  Like, I just don't want to buy something that's called Old and Forester.
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  I don't know it sounds like a car.
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  Actually.
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  I think there is a Subaru Forester, isn't there?
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  But like, I was just not interested in that at all.
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  And then I had. Then you tasted it.
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  Drank.
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  Have another sip, Dave. I drank some.
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  I drank some and I was like, boy, this is good.
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  Yep. There's a classic.
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  Don't judge a book by its cover because now it's one of our favourite days.
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  But have a look up there, the Old Forester.
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  I've got a little lineup of them.
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  They look quite consistent but they're not pretty.
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  It's not like it's old school and stuff. It's an Old Fashioned.
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  It's like a. It's that.
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  It's retro. Dave.
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  Here's another one. Weller.
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  Boring. It's really boring.
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  There's nothing fancy about that.
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  Dave's attack of the label. I'm not attacking.
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  I'm just saying it's a bit flat.
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  What about Eagle Rare?
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  One of my favourite bourbons.
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  But the bottle shape is so bland.
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  Yeah, but they know they've got the good stuff, so they know they.
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  Doesn't really matter.
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  I love Michters but most of the Michta's normal lineup is in a bottle shape.
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  That is not anything that's gonna set the world on fire.
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  The juice is unbelievable. It's these.
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  But they've come up with a bottle at some point and they've stuck with it.
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  And their stuff like is so good they don't need to worry about
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  what their bottle look like. Evan Williams.
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  I don't mind what colour the label is.
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  All the Evan Williams bottles are boring. They're like.
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  It's like the boring book in the library that no one's ever touched.
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  So it's, you know.
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  You should title this episode Dave's. Dave's.
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  Rant about bottle design. Rant about.
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  Because the thing is like, you look at that Lux Row one or you look at the
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  Chicken cock one or you look at Lucky Seven or Minor Case, which is a ride.
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  Blanton's is beautiful.
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  Rock Hill Farms, Peerless. You could.
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  You can look at. I mean, all of these.
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  Oh, goodness. Do not get me started on Pappy's.
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  Pappy Van Winkle is the.
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  One of the weirdest fancy bottles. They've kept it that way.
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  It's trying to be incognito or something.
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  Yeah, it's not about the bottle, Dave. I know.
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  It's about you over the line. If you.
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  If you're at a shop and you're kind of like, I can't taste it,
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  which one looks pretty?
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  But also some of these brands are so recognisable, it doesn't really
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  matter what the bottle looks like.
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  It does to Dave.
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  What I'm saying is that Costco.
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  I get why Costco aren't gonna do this, but they're not gonna put it.
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  In a nice fancy bottle.
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  But why put it in a nice fancy bottle when it tastes just as good in that one?
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  Yeah, I think what I'm.
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  I think one of the things that I really like about this thing
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  is, is that it's kind of like our.
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  Little secret and they were telling everybody about it.
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  Well, you know, the good thing for us in this instance is that so far our following
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  isn't earth shattering.
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  And so I'm pretty confident that's not.
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  Gonna have a queue out the front tomorrow.
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  Sadly, one of you go down and get yourself.
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  I mean, it's one of these things.
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  Button 1792.
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  From Costco. Yeah, but there's so many.
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  There's just so many really good bottle designs that also have good juice in them.
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  Yes.
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  And there's also some good bottle designs that the juice is in that flash.
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  I know.
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  So it's not really about the bottle is what I'm trying to say.
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  Yeah, okay. All right.
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  And you may disagree with me.
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  Yeah, no, I probably don't disagree with you.
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  I think there's no correlation is probably where I'm at with it.
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  What are you doing? You're getting on Instagram.
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  What's happening? Why are you getting your.
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  I forgot to. That's all right.
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  I forgot to pause my son's story.
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  Your son's gonna be grumpy at me. I don't think so.
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  Well, I guess at the end of the day, when you're at a bottle shop and you're looking
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  at the shelves, or you're just at Costco buying yourself a casket,
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  some blinds and solar panels.
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  Don't judge a book by its cover.
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  Yeah, well, don't judge a bottle by its label, or don't judge a
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  bourbon by its bottle.
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  Crack it open, have a little pour.
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  And find something you like.
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  And if it's this one, buy a case of it. Yes.
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  Cheers. Cheers.
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