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Hirsch Double Oaked Single Barrel Yellow Label | IYKYK Shhh it's the Secret Purple Top · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  Is your working the mic instead of popping it?
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  It's getting there. Oh, good one.
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  We are drinking a Hersch.
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  I love how long his name is.
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  The Single Barrel, Kentucky Street, Bourbon Whisky Double Look.
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  I feel like there's an agreement that we have that we haven't spoken about before,
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  which is that one of us opens it while the other one talks about it, so that there's
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  a smoothness to the production of one person pause the other person-
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  That broke the unspoken rule. Introduces it.
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  Sorry, Dave. It's the Hersch that's the yellow label.
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  I don't think you'll find another bottle like this in Australia.
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  I could be wrong.
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  Someone might have it in their collection, have been able to track one down
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  and brought it back to Australia.
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  I don't think you'd be able to buy it here.
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  Or maybe, yeah, I just don't think you would- Back shop for some bottle of
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  somewhere, you won't find a nice yellow label.
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  Kind of doubtful.
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  The glee with which the person at the bottle shop in San Fran
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  expressed how happy she was that I was going to be able to take this home when
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  she gave it to me was something to behold. Well, let's enjoy then.
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  Cheers.
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  This is a phenomena. Oh, my goodness.
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  This smells great.
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  That's good. On the nose, how is that?
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  Actually, Hardmy wants to let this open up a little bit of it.
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  Give it a good smell.
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  Interesting fruitiness on that.
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  Almost like a plum.
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  Yeah, stone fruit, and then a little bit of appleiness or something.
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  Definitely any stone fruit.
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  Like you're walking in an orchid.
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  Or fruit picking.
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  Then, my goodness, when you pop on your mouth, oh, my goodness, it is so good.
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  I'm going to let it happen up a little bit more.
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  I was like, they always take me back to childhood memories.
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  I'm like, why does bourbon take me back to-What happened in your childhood?
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  Absolutely. Nothing to do with bourbon.
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  Yeah, fruit picking.
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  Child of two teetotalers, and you're getting bourbon memories
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  from your childhood.
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  Take me back to my childhood.
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  What can you tell us about this, Andre?
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  Here's the first thing.
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  We both know what sourced whiskey is, right?
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  Yeah. So Hersch didn't make this.
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  This is a sourced whiskey.
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  There's a thing that happens.
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  I'm going to talk about this as though I'm a real bourbon nerd, but I'm not at the
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  right level of bourbon nerdery to know this.
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  Someone had to tell me this to get me over the line.
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  So I walk into the bottle shop in a whiskey, special whiskey shop in San Fran.
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  San Fran, yeah.
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  And she says, I tell her that I'm flying home.
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  You need a good bottle of bourbon to take home?
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  I've got an allocation I can take home.
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  So she looks at me like, I've made some suggestions.
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  She goes, Oh, what about this one?
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  And pulls it off the shelf and she's like, this one is the, and I'm going to have to
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  read it because I don't know it off the top of it, 72, 13, 15.
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  And she said, you know what that means?
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  So it's 72 % corn, 13 % rye, 15 % melted barley.
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  So for people who really, really, really know bourbon, that means
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  something very significant.
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  And I'm not clever enough for that, but that means that this is
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  a Willet original mashbill.
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  So a Willet original mashbill that's been aged nine years, which we know this one
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  has, is a nine-year-old Willet family estate.
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  And you can't...
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  They're quite expensive and hard to come by.
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  So they just bottled it somewhere else?
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  Well, Hersch acquired some barrels of it.
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  I see.
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  And then did this double-oak thing.
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  So they do the first nine years in the normal barrel, and they put it in another
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  barrel for a year to finish it.
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  And it's delicious.
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  But when you understand how hard it is to get what the juice in there
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  is in the bottle that everyone really wants, that's a really interesting thing.
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  But because they would have bought the barrels, I don't know if they would have
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  bought them nine years ago, but eight years ago before people really, really
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  wanted these willets, it becomes a really interesting- But there's not
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  very many of these bottles. You're right.
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  They only make... It says a small batch.
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  Right. There's only 19 made each year.
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  And so that's the number of barrels that they dump.
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  19 barrels, yeah.
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  So that would...
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  Yeah.
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  So there will be what a few thousand bottles.
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  There you go.
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  So I think this is really fun.
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  And the thing that I like about this is that there's a particular level
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  of bourbon nerd you have to be.
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  Yeah, see, I'm not there to know that it's 72, 13, 15.
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  I look at that and just go, 72% corn.
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  That's going to be delicious because I like lots of corn.
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  You like corn?
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  Maybe we should do a corn whiskey one time.
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  Just 100% corn.
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  You can see if you like that. I don't know.
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  I just like this. I think the sweetness.
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  Now I'm getting bananas.
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  It's like a fruit salad.
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  It's a bit like a fruit salad, actually.
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  Like figs covered in honey. Whoa.
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  Okay, cool. That's fun.
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  When they slice them up and you drool honey over them and put them on a cheese
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  platter, that's what it smells like.
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  And the second barrel.
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  It's a new child oak barrel, the second one.
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  You do get a bit of the...
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  It's not super pronounced.
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  You know wood for double oaks has that real sticky sweetness that you get.
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  It goes to this new next level of dessertiness.
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  It's almost like a sticky dead pudding or something.
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  I don't think you get that.
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  This does have that leathery maturity to it that doesn't eke out too much.
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  This has something, and I think this is one of the bottles that
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  you've probably drunk more of than me.
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  Is this one of these ones?
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  This is one of the ones that has that slight, and I've discovered
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  that when there's ones that I'm like, It's nice, but it's got that little weird bite
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  flavoury bit on the end that I just don't…
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  It's not my favourite. I love this.
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  I've discovered that it's when they describe in the profile
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  that it's tobacco flavours.
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  For whatever weird reason, that's the one.
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  Similarly, I started to think, Oh, that's not my favourite.
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  That one's not my favourite.
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  Then I looked at how they describe it.
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  Each of the ones I didn't like all happened to have what they would
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  describe as a tobacco flavour. That's interesting, isn't it?
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  I'm like, What is it about these particular ones?
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  Just pour it into my glass.
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  Just tip it right in. It's fine.
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  I didn't say it was awful.
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  I just said there's that little flavour that doesn't put it over
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  the edge as my favourite.
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  We circled back to that thing that we both love about bourbon so much, which
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  is-Drink it how you like it.
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  Drink what you like, how you like it.
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  With who you like.
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  Well, and yet here I I'm stuck with you.
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  But this is this thing about I'll happily pour you a glass of Penelope
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  foregrain, the white label.
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  So you can have that because you like that.
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  I don't have this.
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  To me, the complexity of this-I love the richness of this.
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  I get an after.
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  For whatever reason, when it's one with a tobacco-y flavour,
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  I like the smell, I like the taste.
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  But then there's an after flavour that stays with me that I don't like.
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  And you obviously do.
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  One of the other things about this is we're into high proof here.
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  What are we, 57% or something?
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  I should have read it before I said 55.
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  7%, so 110, 111 proof.
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  The mouthfeel changes and the way that it sits in your mouth.
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  Don't have any more yet.
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  The last mouthful was a few minutes ago.
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  Can you feel in your mouth where it's been?
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  Because I've got an imprint, like someone's put a footprint in my mouth of
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  where the whiskey's been, which is really unique.
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  I don't often have this thing.
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  Yeah, I can definitely tell which parts of my tongue.
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  What do you got?
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  It's like down the side and on the side part of my cheek and then a little
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  bit down the middle, down the back. There you go.
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  Amazing.
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  So I've got the middle front of my tongue and then around the front.
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  I feel like it missed the whole front. Really?
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  Okay. I love this thing.
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  And so everyone's so different.
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  But I think that mouthfeel as well. It's got that...
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  Fred, you could call it an adhesiveness, but it sticks on.
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  It's gluey. It sticks in and stays in.
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  I like your imprint, Dave.
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  It's like a big boot in the snow. There you go.
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  Drink a mouthful of bourbon and then sit there and work out where
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  it stays in your mouth.
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  That's fun.
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  I will do that, but we have to coordinate when we have our sips more so there's not
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  this weird silences where I have a sip and then you just have a sip anyway.
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  Don't even think about the fact that it's going to be like- I was like, I wonder if
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  it's going to taste different because I've been swirling it.
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  I'm getting like a-I still got that oaky barrely.
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  Dried fruity sultana.
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  Not quite trail mix, but almost trail mixy thing as well in a really pleasant way.
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  Dates and prunes and-Yeah, that yummy-Yeah.
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  I'm getting hungry. Maybe.
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  I've had enough dinner. Maybe.
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  How The trail mix sounds appealing.
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  I don't think I've ever wanted trail mix before.
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  I now want trail mix. Let's go hiking at Yosemite.
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  Sure. Sounds good.
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  In terms of Hersch, I don't know for a fact if they do actually make
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  any of their own spirits.
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  I could be that if they distil or if they're a non-distilling producer.
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  I think that's the words in the right order there.
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  But this one's definitely sourced.
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  So I'm not sure if you can visit their distiller.
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  I just don't know that one. We could check it out.
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  But you can buy some Herschers here.
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  I've seen them, but I don't think you get this one here because I think it's
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  just so rare and so hard to come by.
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  But if you do find it in your adventures, it's the Hersch yellow label.
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  Single Barrel, Kentucky Straight Bourbon, Double Oak.
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  You can find yourself a bottle of that, get your hands on it.
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  It's like those very hard to find Purple Top Willets.
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  Just in a different bottle. That's exactly right.
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  That's for different people.
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  But the great thing about this is that that's a special hard to find,
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  limited edition bottle, and I prefer to be drinking something else.
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  So drink it- That gets to enjoy more of it.
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  Drink it how you like it. Exactly.
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  Cheers.
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