the other day and watched in horror as the man took it in his hand, put his nose deep inside the small snifter & inhaled deeply, then proceeded to knock back the entire contents of the glass in one huge slug of cognac, exactly like the cowboys did with the whiskey served at the bar in the old western movies. And then he said, “This is the best cognac I’ve ever had,” as he set his glass down for me to fill again with Francois Voyer 25-year old XO.
OMG! I really wanted to slap him hard across the face and somehow make him give me back the $10 worth of cognac he had just so carelessly poured down his pie hole.
I then proceeded to tell him, as politely as possible that there is a way to ingest cognac, and many ways not to. Fortunately he was open to new ideas, and I showed him how to increase his enjoyment of the golden nectar simply by slowing down and taking some time with it. I took him through several cognacs and finally, about two hours later, he understood how to really enjoy cognac.
Does anybody else know a barbarian like this?
wonderfull story! he may as well have gargled with it!