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thekidcormier
Gym climber
squamish, b.c.
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Dec 11, 2012 - 12:33pm PT
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Sure thing big guy
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2012 - 12:34pm PT
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Sick!! Thanks bud!
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dec 11, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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Not many coming from Vancouver if they all fit in Anders' car.
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian
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Dec 11, 2012 - 03:39pm PT
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I am still coming.
Hamish I am bringing that print for you, I missed the mailing deadline.
Did Marc-Andre get an invite yet, he's practically neighbours with you Perry.
Does Sanford, and Beaubien know about this too?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 11, 2012 - 07:43pm PT
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I'll be coming back Friday night also. Perhaps leaving late afternoon, gettting something for supper en route, then descending upon Casa Nadine and Perry like a herd of turtles. My car can fit four total, assuming a reasonable payload of 'stuff'.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Dec 12, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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Anything that annoys Donald Trump is worth doing, and worth doing well. Another round of Glenfiddy, please!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2012 - 09:21pm PT
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As for Scotch, I saw a nice bottle of 25yr. old Laphroaig in a Calgary Airport jar store. Alas, I was a bit short coming up with the $568.00 to make it mine.
Is it really worth it? Must be some darn fine scotch!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 12, 2012 - 09:22pm PT
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Pretty expensive way to start a fire. Why not just use (old style) $20 bills?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 12, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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As for Scotch, I saw a nice bottle of 25yr. old Laphroaig in a Calgary Airport jar store. Alas, I was a bit short coming up with the $568.00 to make it mine.
Well, it was Calgary, so what did you expect? The good stuff?
I was killing time in Heathrow on a stopover to Madrid a couple of years ago and wandered into a Scotch shop. Not much in there for $500. Most of the bottles had 4-figure price tags, and quite a few were up into 5 figures. And that was pounds, not dollars. The biggest number I saw was £22,000. Which translates to about $35,000.
And no, it wasn't a 5,000 liter barrel, just an ordinary size bottle. Distilled by Macallan, but not recently.
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thekidcormier
Gym climber
squamish, b.c.
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Dec 12, 2012 - 10:47pm PT
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Scotch scotch scotch. I love scotch. Ribs, I had ribs for lunch. How now brown cow. Unique Ney York. The arsonist had oddly shaped feet.
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Dec 13, 2012 - 12:54am PT
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Sounds like Luke has been into the scotch already...
I've been in that scotch shop in Heathrow. Shocking! There will always be a place for people with too much money to spend it. If single malt is your fancy, then 85 year old bottles that cost as much as a new pickup truck may be just the right thing for you.
How much does that work out to per drop anyway? Hmmm... 750ml bottle, approx 20 drops/ml equals 15,000 drops. 22,000 pounds sterling times 1.59 equals $34,980 CAD. 34,980/15,000 = $2.33 per drop. WOW
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Rolfr
Social climber
North Vancouver BC
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Dec 13, 2012 - 01:08am PT
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The best alternative to Scotch, premium Kentucky Bourbon.
Makers Mark or Woodford Reserve the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby.
This isn't the Jim or Jack that gave bourbon it's redneck rep.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dec 13, 2012 - 02:43am PT
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Jeezuz Crisis bk, thanks for that one!
Dweezil and his crew are awesome and I'd hate to miss it.
I'm buying tix tomorrow!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 13, 2012 - 02:54am PT
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Why don't they have solstices on Mondays or Tuesdays anymore? If they did, I would make the trip up there and ingest the sacred fungus among us. Have a great time. Woot.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Dec 13, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
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OK, time for a reality check--check--check.
All of these fine products are available at most LCB outlets.
I have sampled the Mezzomondo 2010 on several occasions, and it goes down fast and smooth. In fact the faster, the smoother. Personally I sensed more of an apple/huckleberry flavour, with smokey licourice overtones. I felt it was overrated at 88/100, and gave it 87.25/100. :)
It's amazing that these wines come all the way from Europe, sell for $10-, and everyone still makes a buck!
By way of comparison:
Calona Red. Smells and tastes like kerosene. 5/100
Thunderbird. The aromas normally associated with any squat toilet anywhere, combined with the flavours of putrid plums. 3/100
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 13, 2012 - 11:39pm PT
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It's amazing that these wines come all the way from Europe, sell for $10-, and everyone still makes a buck!
Given that, as you point out, a lot of domestic Canadian and US wines sell for more and taste like crap, there's something fundamentally wrong. If grapes were incredibly difficult to grow here, that might explain it, but they're not.
So given that the cost of bringing wine to Vancouver from the Okanagan, or to Seattle from Yakima, is next to nothing when compared to bringing a bottle from Italy or France, why is the value-for-money equation skewed so far in favor of the European wines?
Hamish, I think we have to institute a Pacific NW/SW wine summit. You, and Glenn and Wayno and I should meet at least twice a year -- once on each side of the border -- and investigate this matter in depth.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Dec 13, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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It's amazing that these wines come all the way from Europe
Considering that 40% of the EU budget goes on agricultural subsidies, not so surprising though.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 13, 2012 - 11:46pm PT
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Considering that 40% of the EU budget goes on agricultural subsidies, not so surprising though.
And of course there are no agricultural subsidies in North America. How terribly unfair.
And second... 40%???? Are you serious? Do you have any kind of back-up for that?
Seriously Dr. D? 40%?
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Dec 14, 2012 - 12:14am PT
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Not sure about including Glenn in the wine-tasting. He can get pretty rowdy. I recall from the earlier posts about various pubs in BC that Glenn had visited every sleazy, bad idea, stay away from, yer gonna die pit in the province. Extra insurance will be required.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 14, 2012 - 12:18am PT
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Not sure about including Glenn in the wine-tasting. He can get pretty rowdy.
But... but... But he seemed so... so nice. He visited us, and talked about wine, and... He even identified a rock for us.
Are you saying it was a sham? A trick to make us think he was a wine-loving yuppie? That if we invite him, he will bring bad wine?
Oh, dear. I'm so confused.
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