Spot on. MWND is just rendezvous finished in a wine barrel. I won’t pay 150+ for it. Back when they were blends of well aged sourced whiskeys they were worth it.
I did just buy a Sweet Wheat today for 30$ and am smitten.
High West whiskey was much better when they sourced from MGP. Their prices keep going up and quality keeps declining. This years Rendezvous is Meh for an 80$ bottle. The price for Campfire and Bourye is silly for what they are.
I’m a firm believer that whiskey aged at altitude and in cold...
This is my turf...these folks held a funeral for the bears at a local pub after this whole thing. The bears were running through a local residents yard daily, they called up F&G and told them to come deal with them or they would for their kids safety. They were running amok in a rural...
This is straight out of Geordie Gillette of Grand Targhee's playbook. He bought 500 acres years ago near coyote meadows just outside of Yellowstone and a long ways from anyplace and threatened to develop the hell out of it and leveraged it into a land swap with the FS for the base area at Targhee.
East side has zones that are 25% over elk objectives this year. The state is issuing huge numbers of depredation tags and wish they had some more more wooves spread out here to kill some elk so they don’t have to.
Life in the fire house requires this with the requirements that they be relativley easy, relativley cheap, and scaleable to feed a fair few. My 3 that are constantly requested:
Chicken Adobo
Chicken chile verde tortilla soup
Smoked tri tip
I make damn good mashers based on bon apetit's...