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July 15 2005 -- Hey Frenchie!!
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So here I am on a Friday night sitting at home with my parents and having a good time doing it. You know why I am having a good time doing it? Because they get fancy things and being around allows me to partake in those fancy things. What fancy thing to I get to have tonight? Vodka. Not just any vodka, I am talking top of the line $51 a bottle vodka.
Jean-Marc XO Vodka, it's French, but they lost the 2012 Olympics so I suppose we are allowed to cut them a little slack here.
So what is so fancy about this vodka, anyway? Well, everything I have read about it has rated it at nearly top of it's class. This is not the cheap stuff you get for college parties or just sitting around doing shots with your friends. This is the kind of stuff you get when you have a bunch of fancy people over and you want to impress them. Heck, this stuff is so fancy that when you tell them what exactly it is they will pretty much be forced to like it, if they don't then they must not be very fancy.
So what does the ultimate authority in vodka have to say about it?
Jean-Marc XO $50 Origin: France
* Name game: The 'XO' adds a not-so-subtle hint of cognac terminology.
* Selling point: Distilled nine times in pot stills normally used to make ... cognac.
* The verdict: A supersleek taste with plum and cinnamon accents. Worth every penny.
So how about that, eh? MSN loves it so it must be good. But you know what, who cares what they think. I think a higher authority would be our Lord Beattie, but yeah, he had to go out and be cool instead of sitting in drinking the good drink. Heck, even my girlfriend is out tonight at a theme party dressed up as a boy and having a good time. That leaves only me to sit around and entertain the rest of you, and I use entertain in a very broad fashion.
So how about this vodka, eh? Isn't that what we all want to know about? Well, opening it up was a bit of a pain. The cork and the top of the bottle popped off. Not very good for $50 a bottle. We had to use some pliers and some mucking about of the bottle to get the whole thing open. That just led to the anticipation. So there we were, my mother, my father, and me, all with shots of vodka waiting to be tried. My mom sipped hers and enjoyed it more then any other vodka she has tried, and being that she pretty much only drinks Grey Goose that's saying a lot. My dad took his shot and made a puckered up face and complained about not liking vodka. I looked at mine for quite a long time and eventually just walked away from it and opened up a Sam Adams and decided to hang out for a while. I thought to myself "Heck, what am I doing? This is the fanciest vodka I have ever been around, lets try it out." So I did. I used to be a big vodka drinker but in the past few years I have given up on most everything besides Jagermeister. Well, this stuff tasted good, I think. It had no burn at all. It tasted like vodka but a good vodka, not some crap you find bottled off the NJ Turnpike in Edison for $9 a handle. It had a hint of other flavor it it but it was all pretty natural. Did I like it? No, not really, That doesn't matter though, I could tell this was good stuff. It was smooth and tasted just like you would want to taste.
But what fun is it drinking it plain? No sir, lets mix it up. Tonight we are having an Appletini. Was it good? Hell yes. Was as smooth as could possibly be. The vodka disappeared into the apple flavor. Just imagine if we had some really good apple liquor and some apple slices. We'd be living in even more luxury then we already were.
I'd say this stuff deserves be a prestigious 5 cheese vodka. Not so much because I liked it, but mostly because I know it's good. Here you go.
Posted by LordJezo
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