Have several friends that are collectors, far larger collections than myself. Visiting one of them toward end of Covid, we had a friend of a friend in tow.
Mind you, this guy we are visiting has shelves full of unobtanium and amazing bourbons.
Tag along, not recognizing the ultra rarity of much of the stuff in front of him, some of which we are trying says:
“Do you have any Pappy, I am told it is the absolute best”
Before Any of us could explain that there are other much rarer bourbons in front of him, the host grabs a very rare bottle of 23 from a shelf, cracks it open and hands it to the guy. He looks at all of us puzzled and clearly with many questions — and before he can ask for a glass of speak a word, the host says “when somebody hands you an open bottle, you drink. You don’t wait for a glass”.
“Umm wow umm how much did that bottle cost?”
“Don’t worry about that, you wanted pappy, drink the pappy and pass it along… bourbon is for drinking”. And with that we passed a rather rare bottle of 23 around until it was mostly gone. I never talked to the guy again, but imagine he looked up the year of that bottle and realized that he slugged down a few thousand worth himself….
