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Old Forester Statesman and What the Top of the Rickhouse Tastes like · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  Are we sitting to get more closely together or something?
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  Because you nearly punched me when you opened that.
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  The Cooke had a lot of, I don't even know what a scientific word behind that.
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  You've been giving him very little in terms of what's happening here.
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  Speaking of giving for someone very little, we're just going to look at it and
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  imagine that there's something in our glass, are we?
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  What are we having? Is it an odd edge?
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  We are having an old forester statesman.
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  Dave, it's got a- Great.
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  It's smelling good already.
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  This is-I can't even see it, but it's got a normal Old Forrester bottle, but a
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  beautiful Statesman written underneath it.
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  I really can't. Yeah.
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  Don't try to get the focus on it.
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  Let's cheers instead so I can get stuck into it.
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  Old Forrester All right.
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  We've been to Old Forrester in the distiller experience in Louisville.
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  We have. And we've spoken about it before.
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  It was wonderful.
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  What's your favourite thing about...
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  Oh, my goodness, this is smelling good already.
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  Got right to your nose.
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  What are you getting on your nose? Oh, yeah.
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  I'm getting banana lollies, but not that crazy, intense,
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  howl-a-head banana lollies, but like, lovely sticky sweetness.
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  Like This is going to sound weird, but you know that?
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  That chopping board smell before you put out lots of yummy fruit?
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  You just meant chopping board. It smells like a chopping board.
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  I know.
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  When you're putting together a chopping board.
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  And I was like, the chopping board, that woody smell.
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  But then you've got all the dried fruit and the cheese.
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  That's what it makes me think of.
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  I haven't spent much time putting together a chopping board.
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  No, like a platter.
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  Yeah, okay. All right.
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  I get it. But it smells like the wood?
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  Well, it's got that woody smell, but also fruity to me.
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  That's just the memory it gave me.
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  Was instantly like that nice wooden chopping board with the
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  fresh dried fruit and cheese.
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  The more I'm getting air on it, I am getting a lot more wood on it as well.
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  Where did we begin? Old Forrester.
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  Why is it only spelled with one R?
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  Because they changed his name at one point.
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  Out of respect, they dropped one of the R's.
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  Is that right? Do you remember why it was?
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  No. Because he died.
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  Out of respect for him dying, they got rid of one of the R's from his name.
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  Dr. Forrester, is that right? Yes.
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  Yeah, he was a doctor because they stayed open during Prohibition because they
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  had- This is before that as well, yeah. Yeah.
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  But when he died, they dropped an R from the name, and now it's Old Forrester.
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  It was the first ever bottled bourbon, and they talk a lot about that.
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  But Old Forrester is one of my favourite expressions.
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  Can I let you in on a secret about this expression of Old Forrester?
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  The Statesman one?
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  Yes. Tell me.
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  I think it's my least favourite.
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  Least favourite bourbon or least favourite out of the Old Forrester collection?
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  Oh, my least favourite is Old Forrester. Why is that?
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  Because Old Forrester is so good. They're very deserty.
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  This to nose has more of a Like I said, a woody, not as much as a desserty.
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  Stop just smelling it. Could you taste a bit, please?
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  Because this is the reason, and I think you're going to say out loud what my
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  experience of it is, which is what's that experience for you in your mouth?
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  How are you finding that when you drink that?
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  It tastes nice, but it feels weird.
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  Not weird.
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  It definitely leaves like a…
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  It's not smooth.
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  What does it feel like?
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  I don't know.
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  It's that woody feeling, like that expression I say when I
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  feel like I've licked the barrel.
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  I don't think you would lick a barrel.
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  But it tastes nice, but it just leaves It's a different feeling in your mouth.
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  It's a bit thin.
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  To me, it has a little bit of a burn on it that is a bit unusual, actually,
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  for Old Forest, certainly.
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  But bourbons we drink all sorts of bourbons, an expensive
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  and inexpensive ones.
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  To me, the drinking experience is my least favourite thing.
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  I agree with you, the flavour is pretty good.
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  Old Forest is one of my favourites, but that's different.
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  It's not as deserty as how I would describe it, not as deserty
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  as some of the others. Who talks about it?
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  Someone talks about this thing of bourbon was- Someone who knows
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  what they're talking about. I reckon it was Maker's Mark.
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  I reckon it's Maker's Mark.
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  They were the first started talking about it, that Maker's Mark was that they were
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  trying to interrupt the idea that bourbon was supposed to make you feel like a
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  cowboy and feel tough when you You did feel tough drinking this one.
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  Because it had hurt you when it went down.
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  Yeah, but I feel like this has got a little…
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  I'm sure it's not as rough as the old- But that adds to the statesman side of it.
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  Didn't you say it had something to do with it came out the same time
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  as the Kingsman movie?
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  Yeah, I don't know the specifics of whether or not- You just made it still up.
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  No, it's inspired by the Kingsman movie. I love those movies.
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  Can I tell you a little bit about it?
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  Because it's made from the barrels that are at the top part of the rickhouse.
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  So that's the way they make this expression, 95 proof.
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  So that's 47. 5% or whatever that is.
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  And that's how they make it.
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  So it's the highest part, which means, theoretically, it ages the quickest.
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  Quickest.
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  Maybe that's why it's got that little bit of a rough edge on it.
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  Maybe.
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  Maybe it hasn't had enough time to be a bit It has that slightly more
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  mellow-Describe it as the delicious old forested taste with a little
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  bit of a rough edge on it. It's a statesman.
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  It definitely has that caramel-iness and all that stuff.
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  And it's picked up some awards and stuff.
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  It's not that I don't like it, but it's You prefer the gentle or smoother ones
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  rather than ones that make you feel like a cowboy.
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  I'm not really going for the cowboy thing.
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  Yeah, but some people might be.
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  You asked me, is that one you can get in Australia?
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  Yeah.
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  I reckon it's probably the easiest I don't have an Old Forester yet.
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  In Australia, in my view, at least. I could be wrong.
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  Maybe.
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  Maybe we just have a glut of it or something, but I feel like
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  you can see it everywhere.
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  I do love the desertiness of an Old Forester range, but this would be on the
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  end of the non-deserty end of the ones I've had, because I love Old Forester.
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  There definitely, to me, though, is still that sweetness.
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  It's like a, I don't know, almost like cinnamon, vanilla-y,
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  almost donut-y-ness or something to it. But it's just…
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  I don't even It's like a dry fruit.
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  It's like a thin finish.
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  You know how sometimes it's like a syrupy-It doesn't lose
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  that creamy, thick, smooth coat.
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  It's more of it.
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  You definitely get that woody flavour, which is nice, but not…
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  I I prefer the deserty, rich ones.
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  If the Aussie bourbon fans who are tuning in want to experience some Old Forest of
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  Goodness, and some of the other expressions as well,
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  what can they do when they go to Kentucky? What can they do?
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  They can start by going Kentucky, going to a tour at the distillery.
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  You get to see them light things on fire.
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  One of the coolest, the most Disneyland of the- You really got to experience
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  them putting the barrel together and they lit it all up and then Well, there's
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  a real Cooper who works upstairs. Yeah.
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  It was like some of the others, they talk about that stuff and they show you
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  bits of wood or barrels and tell you.
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  But at Old Forest, they show you that stuff, which I really loved.
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  You got to go down and look at the Is it the charcoal that they
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  strain it all through?
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  That's just dumping. They don't strain it through.
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  Dump it, yeah.
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  But then you got to see all of that messiness, I suppose, that's
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  behind the scenes, which is… Yeah.
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  I really thought you- And they sell great T-shirts, too.
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  Yeah, I thought you…
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  I knew you'd get T-shirts, but there's another part of the story you haven't
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  taken us to about Old Forrester.
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  Which one, Dave?
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  I feel like it's low-hanging fruit for you.
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  Right. You could just tell us.
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  It's the Madesca.
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  Oh, yes.
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  I love them.
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  I think we talked about them most of the last ones.
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  I don't mind. You want to talk about them again?
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  Well, you do, don't you?
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  No, I talked about them last time. Okay.
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  Well, so when you do the tour at Old Forrester, it's not uncommon on a tour at
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  a Burberry Distillery that they'll have a-They often do the tastings with
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  lots of different yummy things.
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  Yeah, a particular handmade chocolate that's special to that distillery.
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  Old Forrester have what they call a Madesca, which I don't think
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  I've ever had anywhere else ever.
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  I think it's specific to that region.
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  It's a cross between a smore and a chocolate and a caramel.
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  It's like a- It's chewing, marshmallowy, caramely, coverage chocolate.
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  Yeah, it's delicious.
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  And it goes really well with Old Forester.
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  Just as we've been talking about it, I've been a little bit transported
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  to that tasting room.
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  When you're on one of your work trips and I wasn't there, I made you go
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  back and get more, didn't I?
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  You did, actually. You did.
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  In fact- I came back with a few bags of chocolate in your- You've
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  recently been trying to convince me to do another one of those work trips, and I've
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  had to resist because he was so insistent about me going on this.
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  There was a conference so close. I know.
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  You could have topped up our supply of the ones we can't get.
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  What a remarkable problem we have. Amazing.
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  Terrible. So what do you reckon?
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  Do you reckon Aussie bourbon trials should get out and get themselves a
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  bottle of this just to try?
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  It's terribly expensive, maybe 60 bucks. Yeah.
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  It definitely is a good introduction.
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  But if you like this, you're going to love the other Old Forrester expressions.
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  And you can get the 80 proof Old Forrester, which is in a a stubbornier
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  bottle with a white label, which is really that's now you're into what I think
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  it was like real Old Forester.
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  And then you get through the other.
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  I definitely give this one a go, especially if you want to be a cowboy.
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  Here's to cowboys. And statesmen.
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