Booyakasha, luv. How’d ye like to come wiv me an’ have a pint o’cider? Mind the bling an’ the Burberry!
Lou, ya plank! When jah git owt th’ nick?
Not much experience with alcohol here – I’m a poor college student – but the best booze I’ve ever had was some 2004 Gray Ghost white wine. They make it out in Northern VA. It’s very sweet. I’d get some more, but it appears that they are sold out, alas.
Absinthe - not so much for the taste, but for the irrepressible feeling of being a louche, fin-de-siecle Bohemian dandy. 
Raki, it doesn’t taste great but it is all alcohol (well it worked well when I was 19!).
Had a roommate for a while who had a bottle of gummy bear liqueur from Germany in the freezer. Stuff was amazing; like drinking gummy bears, but it was booze. Would probably go over as well as “Beer for Kids” here in the US though.
Second and third places go to my first Newcastle and some Tecquila-like booze prepared with honey I drank in Northern Spain.
OK, I goooogled the heck out of Banyul, and it is universally described as being tawney, and this was a definite deep ruby/garnet. Any other ideas?
My uncle and I invented the drink at my sister’s wedding - Champagne (brand may be unimportant) and lemon sorbet. It’s a drink AND dessert.
The Metropolitan Grill in downtown Seattle has a “100 Years of Tawny” port sampler. It’s on the dessert menu here.
It’s a flight of 1-ounce ports, starting with Cockburn’s 10 Years Old Tawny, then Sandeman 20 Year Old Tawny, Graham’s 30 Year Old Tawny, and ending with Taylor’s 40 Year Old Tawny.
I actually like the Graham’s best, but they combination of the four is wonderful.
You guys all sound so fancy with your 50 year old alcohol and $50-a-glass champagnes!
I came in to say that I had the best booze ever this new years. First of all, I had a shot called a Copper Camel. I actually hate shots. They usually burn my throat, or I just plain don’t like the taste of them. A copper Camel is butterscotch Schnapps, a splash of vodka, and Bailey’s Irish Cream. I swear, it tasted just like caramel. It was as if the shot glass were filled with liquid caramel and you just poured it down your throat. Very delicious.
The best I ever had was some French cognac from the late 1800s, given to me by a very drunk Kurt Loder.
El Rey Zapoteco, a Oaxaca mezcal (is there any other kind?)
Sorry, but no. I remember the one bottle of Banyuls we drank as “almost a syrup, deep ruby, sweet and smooth as velvet”. That was in Collioure, near where you were at, so I thought you may have had a Banyul wine.
Of course, we were drinking a lot of wine (who doesn’t when in the region?) so my memory may not be the best. It was a sweet wine though.
Maybe more that I should have. I think it’s Banyuls, not Banyul.
I concur with your assessment. The first time I had Johnnie Walker Blue I was truly amazed. Quite simply, the delicate balance and interplay of flavors was nothing short of a cathartic experience. It was so much fun simply to smell it, to gently put it against your lips, to savor the flavor and just experience the changes the whiskey undertook at the beginning of the sip, during the hold in your mouth, the swallow, and then the aftertaste. Yes, I find it fun and playful, yet sophistacated.
I, too, generally favor single malts, but Johnnie Walker Blue is worth every penny of the $200 or so a bottle it fetches.
Far and away the best thing I ever had was moonshine. The dropoff point was an air-conditioner unit behind a bar in far-eastern Oklahoma. One quart for $15 or two for $25. Leave your money under the big rock and come back at the same time the next day. It came in mason jars each wrapped in the previous Sunday’s newspaper circulars and hidden in a paper sack. Smoooooth and clean tasting and by my guess about 120 proof.
Man, I feel like some kind of unrefined peon compared to you people. The best booze I’ve tasted is a tie.
It’s either the first time I had Bass (it was just a few weeks after my 21st birthday, in my school’s pub. It was happy hour, and the Cute Asian Girl bought it for me. Divine)
Or ice-cold Grey Goose, served in a small glass, with a lone ice cube, sipped slowly.
I just finished off a cute little bottle of La Fogata Mezcal Añejo tequila. If it’s not the best tequila I’ve ever had, it’s a good enough contender that I’d have to line up the competition and do a side-by-side taste test.
Which is really a pretty nice idea 
Seriously good tequila, though.