[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem for Walter, who loves verse so
- From: Eric Dean <ecdean99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:30:33 +0000
Anyone else ever try 12-year (I believe it was, or maybe 14?) Bruichladdich?
(I think I've spelled that right). The first time I ate at the Tabbard Inn
here in DC they had just added it to their single-malt scotch menu had
therefore highlighted it, so I tried it, if only because the name was so great
-- and now it's my favorite...
Regards to one and all
Eric Dean
Washington DC
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:39:57 -0330
> From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
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> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Poem for Walter, who loves verse so
>
> I thank David for his gift of poetry but I feel compelled to publicly state
> that
> I am happily married, and have been for 29 years. I do not engage in romantic
> interludes with males, even if they do share my tastes in single malt.
>
> Also for the record: Laphroaig is a vile malt indeed. A very salient tasting
> note is diesel oil. (Although it works wonders if poured liberally over a
> recalcitrant rusty screw in your floorboards.)
>
> John McC's malt of choice, the 15 yr. Talisker I believe it is, is a more
> civilized and refined libation, though still overly-peaty to my mind. Oban,
> Glenmorangie and Cragganmore remain the most universalizable of all the malts
> I
> have savoured. Phil's "Glenn's liver" refers, of course to a lovely, deeply
> golden coloured, sherry-oak and peach tasting 18 yr. old Glenlivet.
>
> Useful websites:
>
> 1. www.malts.com
>
> 2. An Quaich: The Scotch Malt Whiskey Society of Canada: www.anquaich.ca
>
> Esteriness forever,
>
> Walter O
>
> P.S. Walter tries his hand at poetry, not yet wishing to face Eric Dean's long
> and complex post on Kant's moral theory. OK, here goes (with apologies to the
> poets in residence):
>
> Ode to Daphne Aberfeldy
>
> How can I forget her?
> A medium bodied nose,
> gentle and creamy.
> Perhaps a slight cherry fruitiness
> and a hint of a floral edge.
>
> I recall well the salience of her palate:
> round, full-bodied, assertive and unintentionally sultry.
> With a tangy cocoa peat character to her style and ambience.
>
> Alas, it's over now.
> The finish was poignant.
> Long, smooth and creamy,
> and to this day
> I cherish her touch,
> yes though only a fleeting touch
> of milk chocolate on the tail.
>
>
>
>
> Quoting David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > it's a spry puppy of a whisky with a sly hint of old socks
> >
> > my best bottle of laphroaig is nigh gone
> > my one bottle of laphroaig is done
> > at the last drop
> > a squeeze and a hop
> > prove that all proof
> > like our tonic the sun
> > slips into an ocean of one
> > and then what you do
> > as that nip drips through
> > is surrender yourself to P
> > and a casual touch of brythonic
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > Portland, Oregon
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