The Best Cheap Booze Under $15 - by David Wondrich


	The Best Cheap Booze Under $15 - by David Wondrich
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4-2-2009 10:01 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ab636646-776f-4ca6-addc-230b869114c7/E8CAEEE7-3129-45CD-89A0-49AC625F2C0B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr" style="font-size: 11px;">www.esquire.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">Fifteen bucks, it turns out, can buy you some damn decent liquor. Our drinks correspondent brown bags it for the recession</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><H3><B>Paul Masson Grande Amber VSOP brandy</B><P><I>($13 for 750 ml)</I></P></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/D908F38F-A715-490A-9913-81E38972901F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">more or less smells nutty and spicy, like real, pricier cognac</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><H3><B>Brugal Añejo rum </B><P><I>($14 for 750 ml)</I></P></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/041B2038-884D-47FC-BA3A-1E5B01B9B1C1" alt="brugal rum" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">There's enough flavor in this lightly sugary, nutty, and vanilla-tinged rum to make it a bargain</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><H3><B>White Horse blended Scotch whisky </B><P><I>($15 for 750 ml)</I></P></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/949CB690-F1C4-46B0-A678-8906EA6ECFD3" alt="white horse scotch" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">light but clean and barley-sweet, with flashes of peat smoke</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><H3><B>Gordon's London dry gin </B><P><I>($15 for a liter)</I></P></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/60C64EEE-8ADA-4F9B-88B1-99E4AEF8F6D5" alt="gordon's gin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">bright and piney, with a nose-crinkling shot of black pepper — a lot like Tanqueray</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><H3><B>The Best: Evan Williams Black Label bourbon </B><P><I>($12 for 750 ml)</I></P></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/A02D3C27-1164-4C79-AC58-4B36DD60696F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">Jim Beam is a wonderful whiskey. Even better, though, is Evan Williams — hands down the best cheap liquor we tasted</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">complex nose</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">On the palate, it's impressively thick and chewy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr">grainy sweetness balanced out by tannins</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.esquire.com/features/drinking/best-cheap-liquor-0209?click=main_sr"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.esquire.com/img/A2EFBB70-D0BB-4D6A-83B8-289C380D1F9A" alt="jim bean" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E8CAEEE7-3129-45CD-89A0-49AC625F2C0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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