What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Bruce Rioja]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

Tanqueray No.10

[Bruce Rioja]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

Tanqueray No.10

Very fine stuff indeed, but I'm wondering what's up from that.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

Tanqueray No.10

Very fine stuff indeed, but I'm wondering what's up from that.

That's my limit I'm afraid. Never had any other luxury gin.

[Bruce Rioja]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

Tanqueray No.10

Very fine stuff indeed, but I'm wondering what's up from that.

That's my limit I'm afraid. Never had any other luxury gin.

Me neither. I'm right in the mood for one now though, in an 12 oz glass with ice and lime.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Can one of you fine people recommend to me a particularly exceptional bottle of gin? It's going on exes so cost's not all that important. A guy who's a particularly good account of ours turns 60 next month and I fancy surprising him at our meeting in a few weeks time (and he drinks more gin than WC Fields did).

Tanqueray No.10

Very fine stuff indeed, but I'm wondering what's up from that.

That's my limit I'm afraid. Never had any other luxury gin.

Me neither. I'm right in the mood for one now though, in an 12 oz glass with ice and lime.

I've been asking around and the answer is: Martin Miller.
Otherwise, what I'm now drinking, which is fecking gorgeous - Blackwoods, superior Vintage dry gin (2002). Boy, is it stupendous...
And because of you, I've got it free. Chin chin.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

So, Brucie... last night I got asking my local's landlord (who has a very fine selection of whisky behind his bar) if he knew anything about Gin. It turns out that gin is his particular weakness, and apart from the ordinary stuff he has on his shelves, he cracked open his cellar and bought out a few to sample.
Anyway, me and a couple of others migrated up to his living quarters and spent a delightful evening watching the Great British Bake Off and getting pissed on beer (halves) and gin chasers, then later schnapps chasers followed by whisky chasers...
but before we got too mellow I'd rated the gins for you: Spotto's guide to the world's best gins are as follows - note, these are sipping ratings, straight gin, no shit stirred or shaken in with it, no lime, no tonic, no nothing but gin.

Blackwoods superior vintage (2002) 8/10 gorgeous; silky smooth; less citrussy than most, more spicy.
Martin Miller 7/10 incredible legs crawling up the glass; smooth as silk; lingering aroma
Death's Door 7/10 good legs; very fennel based which I liked but the others weren't so keen on
Tanqueray No.10 7/10 up until last night the best gin I've ever tasted.
Caorrun 5/10 supposedley a top quality gin which everybody else liked but I thought was too lacking in flavours

[Bruce Rioja]

Brilliant. You are indeed a burning Martyr, Spotty, and I salute your self-sacrifice.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Brilliant. You are indeed a burning Martyr, Spotty, and I salute your self-sacrifice.

As they say "somebody had to do it"

[bobo the clown]

So, Brucie... last night I got asking my local's landlord (who has a very fine selection of whisky behind his bar) if he knew anything about Gin. It turns out that gin is his particular weakness, and apart from the ordinary stuff he has on his shelves, he cracked open his cellar and bought out a few to sample.
Anyway, me and a couple of others migrated up to his living quarters and spent a delightful evening watching the Great British Bake Off and getting pissed on beer (halves) and gin chasers, then later schnapps chasers followed by whisky chasers...
but before we got too mellow I'd rated the gins for you: Spotto's guide to the world's best gins are as follows - note, these are sipping ratings, straight gin, no shit stirred or shaken in with it, no lime, no tonic, no nothing but gin.

Blackwoods superior vintage (2002) 8/10 gorgeous; silky smooth; less citrussy than most, more spicy.
Martin Miller 7/10 incredible legs crawling up the glass; smooth as silk; lingering aroma
Death's Door 7/10 good legs; very fennel based which I liked but the others weren't so keen on
Tanqueray No.10 7/10 up until last night the best gin I've ever tasted.
Caorrun 5/10 supposedley a top quality gin which everybody else liked but I thought was too lacking in flavours

Fckg hell ... & on a school day too ?

You enjoyed being ill recently I assume Spotty ?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

So, Brucie... last night I got asking my local's landlord (who has a very fine selection of whisky behind his bar) if he knew anything about Gin. It turns out that gin is his particular weakness, and apart from the ordinary stuff he has on his shelves, he cracked open his cellar and bought out a few to sample.
Anyway, me and a couple of others migrated up to his living quarters and spent a delightful evening watching the Great British Bake Off and getting pissed on beer (halves) and gin chasers, then later schnapps chasers followed by whisky chasers...
but before we got too mellow I'd rated the gins for you: Spotto's guide to the world's best gins are as follows - note, these are sipping ratings, straight gin, no shit stirred or shaken in with it, no lime, no tonic, no nothing but gin.

Blackwoods superior vintage (2002) 8/10 gorgeous; silky smooth; less citrussy than most, more spicy.
Martin Miller 7/10 incredible legs crawling up the glass; smooth as silk; lingering aroma
Death's Door 7/10 good legs; very fennel based which I liked but the others weren't so keen on
Tanqueray No.10 7/10 up until last night the best gin I've ever tasted.
Caorrun 5/10 supposedley a top quality gin which everybody else liked but I thought was too lacking in flavours

Fckg hell ... & on a school day too ?

You enjoyed being ill recently I assume Spotty ?

I am remarkably none the worse for wear because of it, the drinking. It (the gin) was no doubt very medicinal and will have aided my recovery no end. My doctor would recommend it (well the alcoholic one in the practice would). The whisky was a stage too far that I regretted immediately, but being sensible I limited my consumption to a single Bunnahabain, and I got away with it...

[Bruce Rioja]

The Martin Miller's looking like the winner, Spotty, for no other reason than that it comes in the fanciest of bottles available to humanity.

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, ignore anything I say.

Now, into the fray have been added;

Sipsmiths
Williams Chase
and The Botanist.

As has - Fevertree Mediterranean tonic

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I believe, although my exact memory of last night is fading fast, that it is the Martin Miller one that is so Fancy Pants that the distillation is done here in the UK before the distillate is flown to Iceland to be blended with Icelandic snow hand melted by Viking Virgins and then flown back to the UK for bottling.

[Prufrock]

Sipsmith's is vile. That and T10 are snazzier than normal but not really show-stopping. Best in that bracket is Hendricks, but you knew that

[Bruce Rioja]

Right, it's decided.

He's getting 1 x Martin Miller's + 1 x Sipsmiths + some of that fancy tonic water. All I have to do now is to get it all to Halmstad.

Hopefully the 4ucker won't have supped it all by the time I get out there on the 18th so that I can form my own opinion of them

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Sipsmith's is vile. That and T10 are snazzier than normal but not really show-stopping. Best in that bracket is Hendricks, but you knew that

Are you sure, Are you experienced?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Sipsmith's is vile. That and T10 are snazzier than normal but not really show-stopping. Best in that bracket is Hendricks, but you knew that

Are you sure, Are you experienced?

Bloody youngsters think they know everything

[Bruce Rioja]

Hmm. Just noticed that a nearby-ish take away will deliver to my door a 'Prima Donner' 12" pizza for £8.90. Comprising donner meat, onions and garlic butter. However, a Donner kebeb from the same place costs a mere £3.95, so how does that work?

[Burnden Paddock]

Hmm. Just noticed that a nearby-ish take away will deliver to my door a 'Prima Donner' 12" pizza for £8.90. Comprising donner meat, onions and garlic butter. However, a Donner kebeb from the same place costs a mere £3.95, so how does that work?

It's the pizza base, Bruce. It's a lot of dough.