Favorite cocktail

motordavid · #9 08-15-2008, 08:31 PM

-Warm/Hot Summer eve, (or, in our FLA Joint most eves):
Bombay Sapphire, a lil'tonic, on rocks in a tall glass with lime.
-Any Cool to Cold eve: 3 fingers of any of my single malts with
a cube or two. There is not a single malt I've met, that I don't
like and I've tried a hundred...
-in lieu of a cocktail: a glass or two of sipping wine, (red or white),
pre-dindin, followed by a flagon of a very good wine from our collection
based upon what's for eats.
-If it's cool to cold and we have company, maybe crack a '70 vintage
oporto for after dindin.

I try very hard to limit my cocktail to one, and any drinking to 4 evenings/dinners
a week; in retirement, I've seen way too many people have a "nightly drink" which
leads to 3 or 4 nightly drinks, which leads to...