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Old Forester Barrel Pick: Vegas Treasure from Liquor Line Up · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  What have we got, H?
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  We've got an old Forrester.
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  Is it barrel proof?
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  No, it's 100 proof.
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  100 proof. But it's a, sorry, a barrel pick.
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  It is a barrel pick.
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  It's a barrel pick from Liquor Line Up.
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  One of our followers, Lee Reed, recommended that we should go there.
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  And go there I did.
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  Yes, I didn't get to go, but Dave on one of his business trips happened to be in Vegas
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  and went to Liquor Line Up and got an old Forrester.
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  Cheers.
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  We'll see how good their pick is, because old Forresters are good.
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  They are so good.
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  Can I, oh, just let me show you the, so it's a black label old foe barrel pick, 100
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  proof.
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  And for those of you playing along at home, Warehouse I, floor five.
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  That's all the information you're going to get.
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  But old Forrester, old foe barrel picks are those ones that, as, as I'm not sure what
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  the gentleman's neighbourhood system is like, they're just, they're always good.
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  They're just always good.
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  You can't, it's one of the brands you can't really go wrong with, an old Forrester.
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  Like, even their baseline range is.
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  And there's one bottle that I don't love, but the rest of them I do.
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  Yeah, I like their stuff.
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  I've got their t-shirt.
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  Yeah, I like their stuff too.
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  But we'll see what, see what kind of a job Liquor Line Up do in picking a, I always
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  love a barrel pick because I've just, even the story of a whole group of people sitting
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  in a room going, which barrel are we going to pick and bottle up?
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  And it's like, it's kind of like you get a little insight into that group of people's
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  favourite flavour.
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  I mean.
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  Is this something you would have picked, Dave?
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  Well, I would hope that I could pick something so good as this.
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  So this is, there's almost, so I was going to go straight into that molasses-y, caramel-y,
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  I get like it.
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  I was going to say like a cherry, um, like preserved, but like a, you know when you get
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  all the mushed up cherries as a topping?
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  It's like.
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  Mushed up cherries as a topping?
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  I'm trying to, what's that going to be on?
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  I don't know.
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  Like a, on an ice cream or something?
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  Pie or an ice cream or a.
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  Pie, mushed up cherries on a pie?
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  It's like stewed cherries.
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  What kind of pie are you having?
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  Maybe it's in the pie, but I'm like, I'm thinking stewed cherries, it's like that thick,
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  rich, fruity.
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  It's like, yeah.
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  Mushed up cherries.
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  I was trying to find the right words, okay.
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  I was going to do worse.
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  I was going to do worse.
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  I was going to do like a glob of hot, of hot caramel.
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  You're making fun of my mushed up, you use the word glob.
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  I've got like, it's like warm.
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  I was going to say, you know when they make like lollies and they make them, you either
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  have like a hot, globular, hot lolly, you know, when they make them, you know, to make
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  lollies, they need to start with a hot, sugary, hang on, wait, I didn't cut your description
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  off.
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  Okay.
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  Continue with your, you've made up a recipe.
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  I'm at least talking about a real thing.
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  Then to make lollies, you know, when they make hardboard sweets, they have to start
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  with a hot, yeah, caramel-y thing, candy.
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  Yeah, that, that's what I'm getting, with a little bit of lemon, a little bit of citrus.
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  Lemon.
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  I don't think that's...
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  No, I'm not getting citrus.
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  I'm getting like a cherry pie.
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  I'm getting like a citrus-y thing there on the nose.
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  All right, come on then.
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  What's, what, go, you go.
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  I'm not, I can, I can vamp while you do that, so we don't end up with a weird silence.
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  You started the whole show with a weird silence tonight, Dave.
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  Oh, that's yum.
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  That's all you're offering.
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  That's yum.
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  Well, so I get it, I taste it and all you give it is that's yum.
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  It's, it's, uh, you know, the cherry pie analogy, like on the nose was all the fruit.
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  Drinking it, I'm getting the delicious crust.
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  What were they called?
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  They were called Jolly Ranchers.
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  Jolly Ranchers.
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  I haven't had Jolly Ranchers in so long.
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  Does it taste like?
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  Cherry, Jolly Rancher.
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  A cherry, see?
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  I'm surprised that you pulled a cherry note out and now I'm going with it.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm worried about the power of suggestion.
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  Are you, are you, I was going to say, are you worried that you've agreed with me?
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  Are you worried that I was right or?
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  Mm.
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  Super confectionery, like all the lollies.
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  It's very, it's like the, the crustiness of the pie.
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  Do you know what's cool?
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  I would be so stunned if someone, someone else who listens to us, a massive
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  audience, is able to get their hands on a bottle of this.
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  We could say whatever.
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  This tastes like steak.
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  It doesn't.
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  But we could say whatever we wanted, then you would never know.
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  Get your hands on a bottle of Old Forrester.
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  It's always going to be good.
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  That's true.
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  The Whiskey Hunt Australia guys did a great barrel pick.
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  Yeah, they did a barrel pick.
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  That was released this time.
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  Oh, not this time, but like last year and it was, it was really good.
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  Yeah.
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  So they've done a barrel pick, but, um, the liquor line-ups on a barrel pick, just
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  their regular Old Forrester ones are good, but yeah.
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  And there was a little burst of them being available in Australia, but they're not
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  crazy easy to get your hands on here, but in the States they're everywhere.
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  You can get your hands on them in Australia, but they're not just sitting on your
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  everyday bottle of it.
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  We spent five minutes telling our rather convoluted versions of what that tastes
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  like.
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  Can I, should I share the story about what happened when I went to the liquor line-up?
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  Yes, share the story of your adventures without me to liquor line-up.
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  So who was it who said that I should go there?
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  Lee Reid.
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  Lee said, go here.
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  And he said when he was in Vegas on a, I think he was on a work trip too, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Business.
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  This is why people go to Vegas.
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  They're not there to gamble.
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  For business purposes or celebrations.
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  But maybe to get married.
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  He, he said, I don't think he was there for his own nuptials.
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  He said that he, it was his last stop and he needed to, he wanted to take some great
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  bottles home.
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  So yeah, he got a great line-up and he got some Lucky Seven and he got some, yeah, all
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  kinds of different, really good ones.
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  And thanks Lee, because he gave us credit for suggesting some from our podcast and,
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  you know, the things that you can't get easily in Australia, he kind of like collected
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  and was able to bring home, which is so good.
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  And we're so grateful for people who listen and are able to get some benefit from it.
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  That's how you go on great adventures.
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  Exactly, exactly.
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  So, so Lee said, go to liquor line-up.
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  So I Google up, go to liquor line-up, go to liquor line-up, go to liquor line-up, go to
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  Lee said, go to liquor line-up.
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  So I Google up whereabouts is liquor line-up in relation to where I'm staying, which is
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  near the convention centre in that kind of, you know, where all the tourists go in Vegas.
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  Yep.
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  It's a bit of a drive and I'm, I'm working, I'm at a convention, uh, I, half an hour.
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  Half an hour, okay.
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  I'm working all day, they're big days, but I'm like, no, no, I'd love to honour Lee's
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  suggestion and go out and see it.
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  And I, I knew a little bit about it, but not that much about it.
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  So I jump in the car and I go out there and it is a beautiful liquor store.
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  It's beautiful in there.
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  It, there's a lot of, it's not just bourbon, there's like a lot of whiskeys and stuff.
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  A lot of barrel picks in the centre of the store.
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  There's like a little bar, it's like an Island bar where they do tastings for members.
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  That's fun.
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  And when I went in there, I was like, this is almost a little bit like Evergreen, where
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  we love in, in Louisville.
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  And at the time I thought that was like really unique that they would have like a bar in
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  the middle of the liquor store.
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  I think that's a normal thing.
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  In the US probably, yeah.
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  That you can, in Australia you definitely can't do that.
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  No, definitely not.
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  They won't let you serve things, but they definitely do in the US.
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  Yeah, you taste it and that's where you try new stuff.
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  And, and you were sending me pictures of some of the fabulous bottle lineups that
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  were actually available.
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  So it was definitely a good recommendation.
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  Sadly we couldn't bring back lots because we weren't allowed to bring back a little bit.
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  A lot of barrel picks.
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  Here's the wackiest one.
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  I saw some, there's some great barrel picks, there's some great bottles there.
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  I've got a question for you once you've told me.
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  Well, I had a lot of, um, more, if I had more space in my luggage, I would have gone
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  shopping, but I didn't.
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  This is the one which, what did you see that you regret leaving behind?
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  Or like, was your, like hardest to leave behind that you were like, Oh, I'd really
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  like to try that or take that?
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  Well, it's so complicated because I was trying to make a decision about, I was about to go
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  to Kentucky and about to visit a lot of the stories and friends and stuff like that.
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  So I knew I didn't really have a huge range of things.
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  So I wanted to get something that was a memory of my visit to like a lineup.
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  So that's why I had to get one of their store picks.
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  I could buy something from Kentucky, but that's kind of weird to go to Vegas to buy
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  something from Kentucky.
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  So that's why I chose one of their store picks.
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  A right memory bottle, Dave?
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  Well, I think so, in this instance.
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  But having said that, they did have a Starwood barrel pick.
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  Oh, can you imagine going to Vegas and buying a Melbourne whisky that a Vegas liquor
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  store had picked?
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  That's good that they had Australian stuff.
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  Yeah, it was really cool.
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  I don't know, I'm all about it, but I just didn't even know you could do a barrel pick of
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  Starwood. Like, I suppose you can, of course.
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  Yeah, why wouldn't you?
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  Anyway.
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  There you go.
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  Amazing.
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  Only in Vegas.
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  I don't think it is only in Vegas, I think you must be able to do it everywhere.
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  No, like crazy stuff happens in Vegas.
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  For sure.
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  Well, here's to great recommendations and to adventures that don't just happen at
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  distilleries.
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  Yeah.
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  And to the good folks at La Colonna.
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  Whisky adventures.
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  Cheers.
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