Sounds like a blast — but not sure Ardbeg is at its best in such a context, putting it mildly… A light whisky, such as Glenlivet or a nice blend, would be better.
But who thinks of ‘better’, finishing off that kind of blast… I certainly did not, younger days. Entirely beside the point.
A funny one — and more Pseuds Corner — but one of the best things to drink at the end of a big night out, as you think you are becoming oddly sober again (but of course you are not), is champagne. So I found, in my younger days. Strangers often agree with me, as we reminisce about youth.
I can’t abide the stuff (champagne)
It makes my eyeballs swell with a hangover.
I think it is the most overrated drink on the planet, which is some going. You can buy a lovely memorable white wine for the price of a bogstandard champagne.
@malarkey, I tend to avoid whisky as I was never really a top shelf man, but when I did drink it, I’d put ice in it usually. I suspect this was/is largely because it waters it down and actually takes the edge off it. I do the same, often as not, with white wine now, even a goodish one, unless someone else has opened it. I wonder if this isn’t the main reason many people use ice/water, just so it doesn’t taste so strongly alcoholic.
Yes, even moderately priced champagne is expensive by comparison with good white wine. I bought this bottle (for about €25) in Worldwide Wines for Christmas dinner last year and it was gorgeous. Savennieres is really underrated, I think, and even really nice examples are not so pricey:
€25 does not grab much good champagne. Was being a bit jokey about post-blast champagne, of course, but I take your point, which is a far wider one. Still, champagne can be the absolute business. This one is excellent and less than €40:
Equally, I had never thought about ice reducing the prominence, taste wise, of alcohol. You are probably right. I like the taste of alcohol, by and large, and so ice does not appeal, save in gin and tonic.
