My Tiny Bottles with Tammy Coxen

This was a fun little assortment, with one bottle with a very unusual shape and feel, a rum that got Tammy very excited (and another that didn’t), and more fascinating bottles from around the world.

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Grandma's collection had a lot of Canadian whisky and my explorations of the genre continue with Bottle #118: Silk Tassel from McGuinness Distilling. This turned out to be a really good bottle to talk a little bit about the trajectory of Canadian whisky from the 1950s to the modern day and what I've learned about that from the collection so far!

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My friend Jered brought me a fascinating bottle of Canadian Whisky from his parent’s cellar, so we had to taste it along with some of Grandma’s tiny bottles. Carleton Tower was a premium whiskey produced by Hiram Walker in the 1950s and 60s, and this particular bottle was most likely from 1956, containing whisky no younger than 1946, and some all the way back to the 1920s. We compared it to two bottles of Canadian Club (#82 and #96...

In this episode I taste both of Grandma's tiny bottles of Monnet Cognac with Christine Cooney, co-owner of Heavenly Spirits Imports (and a French knight! ). Heavenly Spirits is the US importer for Monnet Cognac today. We compare the two tiny bottles and look for bottle-to-bottle variation, then taste the modern "Sunshine" bottling that matches up best to Grandma's bottles. Christine was a delightful and knowledgea...

This is a little bit of a different episode! As I've been working my way through Grandma's collection I've come across a few duplicate and near-duplicate bottles. I didn't know what to do with them, so I just put them aside. But now I'm catching up on all them and giving you a little peek into my research methods.

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Bottle #111: Boggs Cranberry Liqueur (older & higherproof bottle than Bottle #26)
Bottle #112: Amar...

Brett Adams is the spirits curator for Multnomah Whiskey Library and I couldn’t have asked for a better guest to taste this bottle of 1980s Glenlivet. In our wide ranging conversation we talk about whiskey trends, what “smooth” means, and learn about Brett’s awesome book with Jacob Grier, Raising the Bar. And of course we taste my Grandma’s tiny bottle of 1980s Glenlivet 12 year old single malt Scotch and compare it to the modern b...

The second bottle of Port I've found in Grandma's collection is nearly as curious as the first. Newman's Celebrated Port was matured in Newfoundland, and for a time was considered one of the best Ports in the worldwide. In this episode I dive into how that strange state of affairs came to be!

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Dave Wondrich has been at the top of the list of people I wanted to taste tiny bottles with since I started the project, so I was thrilled to have him join me. We taste two bottle of 1980s French brandy – Bottle #70: Remy Martin Cognac and Bottle #109: Marquis de Caussade Armagnac. We talk about the differences between the two styles and what makes French brandy so special. Then Dave surprises me with a bottle of 1930s Hennessy whi...

This tiny snifter of Armagnac is filled with good stories. There's the murder and betrayal of the Marquis de Caussade, Eliot Salter. The Marquis de Lafayette makes an appearance. And then there's the bit about Victor Hugo's love letter to Sarah Bernhardt...

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For this episode I was joined for a second tasting with Chantal Tseng, a Washington DC based bartender-sommelier. Our first tasting had been of sherry – something Chantal is very familiar with. This time we explored a mysterious bottle of brandy from another part of the Iberian peninsula – Portugal. 

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It's an amazing vintage Drambuie tasting! Tammy is joined by Katie Stryjewski, also known as Garnish Girl on Instagram. They taste four samples of vintage Drambuie, including one of my grandma's tiny bottles, and see what we can learn about how this iconic Scottish liqueur has changed through the decades from the 1970s to 2020s.

Find Katie online:

https://www.garnishblog.com/

https://www.instagram.com/garnish_girl/

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Frangelico, is not now, and never has been, made by monks. But it sure looks like it should be! I dive into the surprisingly recent history of Grandma's tiny bottle of Frangelico from the 1980s.

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Time to unbox some more bottles from the collection. This selection was very international with bottles from all over the world - France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Canada!

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There's more to say about the company behind this brand than the liquid in the bottles, so I'm covering both these Phillips bottles in a single episode. It's one of those old American liquor companies that you've probably never heard of by name, but you almost certainly interacted with the products and people. From peppermint schnapps to luxury vodka to politics, there's a LOT in this one!

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This bottle of Wild Spirit has it all. It's a product of Jaquin's, a classic American company. It's got a totally fake origin story. Absolutely scathing reviews AND $150 vintage bottles. Not to mention SEC investigations and bribery at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board!

Here's that fantastic negative review!

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For this episode I was joined by Abigail Gullo, the Creative Director of Loa Bar & International House Hotel. We talk about all things New Orleans and our mutual love of rye whiskey, including some of Abigail's awesome family history. Then we dive into my Grandma's 1978 bottle of Wild Turkey Liqueur, which was one of the first American spirit products to be created and marketed with women in mind. We follow Abigail'...

I dive into the story of Grandma's bottle of early 1980s Rebel Yell bourbon, produced at the famed Stitzel-Weller Distillery. It comes from just before the brand that was produced "exclusively for the deep south" went national. In this episode I tell the brand's origin story, reflect on some of their advertising, and talk about its connection to today's top cult bourbon!

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In this episode I was joined by Paul Clarke, the editor-in-chief of Imbibe Magazine to taste Grandma's tiny bottle of pre-1975 Gilbey's Gin. Find out why Paul chose this bottle, what we expected to find, and what we actually found!

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Time to unbox more dusty mini bottles from Grandma's collection! This set included some familiar and some not-so-familiar bottles, which should be fun to research for future episodes!

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