"Ah, is it supposed to be like this? Isn’t whiskey supposed to stop developing once it’s bottled? A fifty-year-old whiskey bottled forty years ago would only have ten years of aging, right?" The Devilish Lolita voiced her small concern, as the upcoming mont was her last chance for a stunning breakthrough; she couldn’t afford to waste it.
"Limited edition."
"Limited edition, eh, what Sumr said seems to make sense! Okay, Artie will listen to Sumr then!" But Artie Vaughn quickly controlled her emotions: "Sumr, you’d better co find Artie quickly. If you don’t co soon, Artie might just swoop down on the handso guy."
A month ago, Sumr Fairmont inherited more than six hundred barrels of raw whiskey.
Under the right storage conditions, each barrel can fill about 160 bottles.
If all the whiskey inherited by Sumr Fairmont were bottled, the number would exceed 100,000 bottles.
But bottling whiskey is a very professional process; it even gives rise to the profession of independent bottlers.
The aging of whiskey is a very complex process. Many whiskeys, due to excessive alcohol evaporation or various other issues, need blending during bottling.
The bottle of whiskey Artie brought back to the country was from a barrel of whiskey brewed fifty years ago, opened by Artie and Sumr Fairmont.
But what they did was definitely not the best outco for that barrel of whiskey.
Whiskey and baijiu are both grain-distilled spirits, yet they are very different.
Besides the most known aspect, where whiskey is fernted with yeast and Chinese baijiu is fernted with Qu, there’s also the final bottling and blending process.
Whiskey blends many different distilleries’ products together to achieve the best expressive effect.
But no famous baijiu brand would blend products from other distilleries to make their liquor taste better.
For example, mixing the sauce-flavored Aurora Wine with the strong-scented Blue River Liquor to create a blend with sauce and strong fragrance.
This example is not saying Chinese baijiu doesn’t have blended types, like Baiyunbian is a typical representative with sauce and strong fragrance.
But Baiyunbian is crafted by the distillery itself, not a new liquor nad by mixing Aurora Wine and Blue River Liquor together.
This is not the Winters’ way.
But in whiskey, blending with other distilleries’ products, even those from vanished distilleries, to achieve their desired final expression is considered very sophisticated.
In addition to blending with other distilleries’ products, whiskey also emphasizes the blending of its own years’ products.
For example, the currently popular single malt whiskey, "single" does not an the sa malt, but refers to blending different years of single malt whiskey from the sa distillery.
The age labeled on the bottle is the youngest whiskey in the blend.
Admittedly, whiskey today has also started the trend of single cask aged whiskey.
But that requires that the single cask itself is very impressive and has aged to the best bottling "age."
If one casually picks an unblended, oak-cask-aged fifty-year whiskey, it may not be suitable for direct bottling.
Obsessed with drinking the strongest spirits and living the coolest life, Sumr Fairmont loves whiskeys like the Robin, with an alcohol content above 57.7%, or even like Aberlour and Glenfarclas 105 with over 60%.
Sumr Fairmont even enjoys drinking 63% Booker’s and 72% George T. Stagg whiskey, which are not what the average person could rrily "enjoy."
The majority drinks whiskey around 40% ABV.
From the few calls Artie made to her, Sumr Fairmont could guess that The Pouting Siren’s return for a tasting event was not going smoothly.
Therefore, rather than choosing based on her personal preference, Sumr Fairmont preferred to trust the brewer’s personally bottled limited edition forty years ago.
If Artie called about sothing else, Sumr Fairmont believed that Artie’s brother, who adored her to the core, would surely help solve it.
But liking a boy is mostly sothing that needs friends.
Two years ago, Artie made a promise with Sumr Fairmont that if she liked a boy, she would definitely tell Sumr right away to help check him out.
Sumr Fairmont responded with a blank-faced "Got it."
When she agreed at the ti, Sumr Fairmont didn’t think this would turn into a cross-national, cross-continental promise.
But a promise exists for people to fulfill.
Having promised Artie, it must be executed without compromise.
Otherwise, Sumr Fairmont was very aware of the situation she would face next.
Once, Sumr Fairmont forgot to bring an electric bottle opener on the way to Artie’s house, and The Pouting Siren inundated her with over 1800 tis of year-round nonstop coquettish complaints for 365 days.
Even averaging it, it surpassed 4.9315 tis a day.
Artie highly values the tiny promises between her and Sumr Fairmont, and she never treats such small matters with a "goldfish mory."
Artie demands this of Sumr Fairmont and herself; this small stubbornness makes Sumr Fairmont relish it despite being complained to over 1800 tis.
In Artie, there is a purity and recklessness that Sumr Fairmont longs for but never had.
Based on the past, which remains vivid in her mory.
Sumr Fairmont said nothing and just started packing her bags.
Besides the promise, it’s also because Artie returned to the country for her own matter.
Sumr Fairmont is quite unfamiliar with Celestar.
She is not like Artie, who has a brother who would expend all efforts dostically for her perpetual happiness and peace.
What Sumr Fairmont has is the sole ray of light piercing into her heart after eighteen years of darkness, which she holds onto with all her might.
She must say goodbye to her past life.
She must reconcile with her past self.
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