After somebody told me that new wine can't be stored for more than 3 years, I quickly ransacked my wine cupboard and opened the my bottle of Cloudy Bay Riesling 2011 and finished it in a week, then opened another Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2012 and finished it in another week. That's almost $80 worth of wine LOL. Although the taste did changed and became more like vinegar, the flavour and Riesling bubbles were still there. They were enjoyable nonetheless but my liver/kidney would probably disagree with me.
Yesterday Andrew came back from London and we met for some drinks at our favourite gin bar Cin Cin. He bought 2 bottles of Jensen's gin back, gave me one bottle and shared a bit of the other bottle with me. He also got me a hip flask to drink during working hours LOL. Jensen's is a small hippie gin distillery in London and only produces a limited number of gin with their recipe. In return, I gave him a bottle of Rokugin from Japan (I asked my cousin to bring back for me).
We ordered one cocktail each first at the bar and after that we couldn't wait and opened the Jensen's to try, and we knew the bartenders pretty well so we invited them to try as well. The Jensen's Old Tom is a heavier gin which has to go with a light tonic and the London Dry can be drunk neat. After that the bartender told us they have imported the limited edition Kino-tea, the tea infused gin from Kinobi, and we asked for a Kinotea tonic. I loved the green tea flavour that comes out at the back, although it's subtle.
The bartender then introduced us to an Italian bathtub gin called Professore Madame. Bathtub gins are unfiltered gin with a rough flavour which people used to distil illegally in a bathtub early in the years but now it's safer. One shot of Professore Madame each for all of us and we were sold. The flavour is not like any other gins we had before, it's more homely, less clean. It's like eating bah chor mee after eating spaghetti. A very different flavour.
After that, I briefly mentioned that I liked the Finnish Napue Gin and then he brought out this Hel Sin Gin, which the same distillery exclusively sold to the bar, so it can only be found exclusively in Cin Cin. To our surprise, he asked if we wanted a Hel Sin Gin tonic, on the house. Yes Sir, of coz.
At the end of the night, I only paid for 1 gin cocktail, and I've got 2 free shots of Jensen's, 1 free shot of Professore Madame, 1 free Kinotea gin tonic and 1 free Hel Sin Gin tonic.
To add on, I went over to meet Jarren and friends with a mild drunk high, and had another round of beer with them. Came back at 4am.
A fantastic gin night.
