CAIN!!!

[Cain]

I've heard that actually lots of the really, really old "re-discovered" champange tastes like shit.  It's not like scotch, where age generally improves...beyond a certain point, they go downhill real quick.

[Jasper]

That tripped my skeptic button.  Wine tasters' opinions of wine seems to be highly correlated with it's perceived worth.  I'd like to see how it did in a blind test.

[Disco Pickle]

They'd have found me yelling at penguins about the evils of conformity and likely covered in my own piss for warmth.

no bottles would have been recovered.

[Adios]

They'd have found me yelling at penguins about the evils of conformity and likely covered in my own piss for warmth.

no bottles would have been recovered.

While I would not have been forthcoming about the find, I would have nursed it like a newborn babe.

[Jasper]

I would have put them in storage and gone in search of a master who could teach me to appreciate scotch better.

[Triple Zero]

I've heard that actually lots of the really, really old "re-discovered" champange tastes like shit.  It's not like scotch, where age generally improves...beyond a certain point, they go downhill real quick.

In this case they were kept really cold, I suppose that would help prevent deterioration.

But I thought that scotch only really ages properly when it's stored in a barrel? At least that's what I was told at the liquor store when we were going to buy a good bottle of scotch for a friend that just became a parent, with the idea that the kid could have real nice X+18 year old scotch when he'd turn 18. The liquor store man said it would undoubtedly keep fine, but that if it's kept in a glass bottle, nothing really interesting would happen to the taste.

[Jasper]

If that's the case, then the scotch should be handed over to some kind of scotch historian, so that details about it can be recorded for posterity.

[Earthbound Spirit]

I would love a taste but I've being good of late.  Sorta have too..... I hate it.  Fuck them bastards.   

[BadBeast]

If that's the case, then the scotch should be handed over to some kind of scotch historian, so that details about it can be recorded for posterity.

Me! Me! I'm a Scotch Historian! 

[Suu]

Too bad scotch doesn't age once it's removed from the barrel and put in glass bottles, right?


-Suu
Shattering dreams since 1982

[Cain]

I've heard that actually lots of the really, really old "re-discovered" champange tastes like shit.  It's not like scotch, where age generally improves...beyond a certain point, they go downhill real quick.

In this case they were kept really cold, I suppose that would help prevent deterioration.

But I thought that scotch only really ages properly when it's stored in a barrel? At least that's what I was told at the liquor store when we were going to buy a good bottle of scotch for a friend that just became a parent, with the idea that the kid could have real nice X+18 year old scotch when he'd turn 18. The liquor store man said it would undoubtedly keep fine, but that if it's kept in a glass bottle, nothing really interesting would happen to the taste.

That is true.  In this particular case, the scotch wont have improved any.  I had more in mind shipwrecks and the like, where they were sometimes transported by barrel.  Champagne, on the other hand, ages more like red wine (as I understand it).  While the conditions on the bottom of the ocean and in all these undiscovered cellars are usually quite good for the aging process...there really is a cut-off point where you need to start bringing champagne out of its hole and drinking it.

[Suu]

Expensive, 300 year old vinegar. Om nom nom!