Ep. 4: The Good Stuff

The grenade bottle. The horse and jockey stopper. The collectors' shelves. Blanton's Single Barrel is one of the most coveted, most photographed, most allocated bottles in American whiskey. It's the original single barrel. By every measure whiskey people care about, it is the good stuff.This week, Thom pours Patsy a glass of bourbon royalty and asks the only question that actually matters: does the good stuff hold up when the person tasting it would rather be drinking literally anything else?Spoiler alert: the bottle did not save itself.Let's just say Patsy is quietly... sometimes loudly... reviewing her life choices.For the Redemption Round, we built a Boulevardier —and if anything was going to redeem Blanton's (like it should need redemption!) for a bourbon-hater, this was the cocktail to do it. Born in 1920s Paris and first written down in Harry McElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails, the Boulevardier is what happens when the Negroni grows up, moves to Kentucky, and trades its gin for bourbon. Whiskey, Campari, sweet vermouth, stirred and served up with an orange peel. Bitter. Aromatic. Slightly red. The grown-up cousin of every cocktail Patsy should like.~~~~Find your spirit glass on the Whiskey Face Scale — grab merch at whiskeyface.live. Follow us on Facebook for updates and Patsy's ongoing suffering.Want to listen to Patsy's radio show on gratitude? Listen on Syndicate Empire's Michele in the Middle the 4th Wednesday of every month from 1-4pm Mountain Time.#WhiskeyFace #Blantons #BourbonReview #Boulevardier #SingleBarrel #WhiskeyPodcast #BourbonPodcast #BuffaloTrace