{"id":529,"date":"2017-06-22T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2017-06-22T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:58:50","slug":"man-enough-for-whiskey-barreled-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Man Enough for Whiskey-barreled WINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few years ago, I had received a gracious invite to the Next Door Lounge<\/a> in Hollywood to participate in a very special tasting of various whiskeys. Before I accepted, I seriously had to ask myself…”Am I MAN ENOUGH for whiskey?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The answer might surprise you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whiskey for me was always shots over the years at Thanksgiving with The Counselor’s Uncle Chuck. Actually, as he possesses a pretty thick Bostonian accent, it’s more like “ssshhhaaaawwwwt”…”who waaawwwnts a\u00a0ssshhhaaaawwwwt…?” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Whiskey is also my Jameson-pounding, occasional partner-in-crime Brett Pearsons<\/a>, who played mandolin for the Celtic-inspired punk group, The Mighty Regis<\/a>, and now jams with his new indie-folk outfit, TINY goliath.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>In fact, Brett wrote a play for us and I had the lead role as a Whiskey Sour-slugging serial killer named Dane.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than that? I have no real relationship<\/em> with whiskey. Hard liquor holds no significance for me. I like tequila, I guess. I went to a tequila tasting in the Mexican Riviera<\/a> once. If I recall, we bought a bottle of vanilla-flavored tequila that had no label. But the thing got drank once we got home.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

They drank whiskey a lot on Deadwood<\/em><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh! I know. You know who loves<\/span> whiskeys? The WIFE! Oh, hell, she may as well be my\u00a0own personal Marion Ravenwood these days. I mean, I will\u00a0definitely partake in the brown if she’s\u00a0pourin’ but don’t count on me getting in a whiskey-slugging CONTEST with her. ForGET it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’ve been trying to learn about the differences\u00a0geographically in\u00a0whisky\/whiskey, too. Scotch is whisky made in Scotland, while bourbon is whiskey made in, like, Kentucky. OR PASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yep, it’s true. They’re distillin’ like crazy up there now. Why, the last time we were there – okay, just last month – we tasted whiskeys, gins, AND bourbon barrel-infused wines. And I have to tell you…I am developing a real taste for them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which leads us, finally, to my WINE PAIRING: The wife and I were at our neighborhood Vons<\/a> supermarket yesterday and I can’t even tell you how fond I have become of their wine aisle. I didn’t catch his name but the fellow in charge of the aisle himself was there yesterday and I was complimenting him on his selection choices. TONS of local California titles, many of them whose tasting rooms we have visited. Anyway, I took notice of what appeared to be a red wine blend in a BOURBON bottle, or glass jug. But this was no Carlo Rossi table stuff, this was bourbon-infused wine. Well, just as soon as I reached for it, the wine guy slaps a bottle of Robert Mondavi<\/a> Private Selection Cab in my mitt, which we learned was aged in Jameson whisky barrels! ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. And very unique. Deepen (widen?) your palette evermore once in a while with one of these and see if you notice or taste a\u00a0<\/strong>difference.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

If this is a new trend, I’m now an official sucker for it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So…am I man enough for whiskey? Getting there. But I feel I’m most definitely man enough for Whiskey-barreled wine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Few years ago, I had received a gracious invite to the Next Door Lounge in Hollywood to participate in a very special tasting of various whiskeys. Before I accepted, I seriously had to ask myself…”Am I MAN ENOUGH for whiskey?” The answer might surprise you.  Whiskey for me was always shots over the years at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,576,584,581,580,583,47,578,577,579,125,214,582,585,127],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boardwalk-empire","tag-deadwood","tag-hollywood","tag-ireland","tag-jameson","tag-next-door-lounge","tag-paso-robles","tag-raiders-of-the-lost-ark","tag-robert-mondavi","tag-scotland","tag-speak-easy","tag-the-mighty-regis","tag-tinygoliath","tag-vons","tag-whiskey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4VgPA-8x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}