Welcome to the first edition of What’s For Sipper? Wherein I ask my friends, colleagues, funny people, interesting people, food and beverage people….you get the point. Where I ask them what in the heck they are going to be drinking. And what they like to drink in many a situation.
First up is the always lovely and charming Rachel, one of my partners in crime (see evidence: On The Lamb.)
Name: Rachel Humphrey
Hometown: St. Louis, MO. Current city: Los Angeles, CA
Favorite summer beverage: iced mint tea, historically, it’s a Missouri thing. These days I like mint & lavender iced tea, sweetened with honey!
Favorite cocktail or spirit: I love bourbon. Hands down. A perfect manhattan, not as in just perfectly rendered, but someone that knows how to make a “Perfect Manhattan.” Sweet & dry vermouth, a lemon twist rim & a dash of bitters. Or a wet gin martini.
Favorite place to grab a drink: Your house. You always have something I’ve never had! Or at Stella, it reminds me of New York & France.
Favorite toast: To life. Or…Get that water out’my way!
Favorite post-dinner quaff: I love herbal liqueurs if you’re really gonna do it. A great old Madeira is sublime & too rare. Armagnac, fantastic. Or, a really yummy spicy tea made of warm spices, like Good Earth tea with almond milk.
Favorite food & beverage pairing: Kimchi & lager. Or Animal‘s poutine with a Burgundian red. Holy hell, I just died inside.
If you could travel to one wine region of the world where would you go? Wow, this is hard. I’ve been to a few that I would love to go back to, Gevry Chambertin, I would like to die there. But right now, I am so intrigued by Paso Robles & the lesser known Oregon areas, and then there’s Columbia Valley, Washington. Can I come back to this? No way to know right now!!!
But maybe I want to visit New Zealand wine country- not because they make my favorite wines, but because I am intrigued to find out if they are as much like French wine country as they say. But then there’s Mendoza.
Shoot. I failed that question.
And last but not least…
What’s for Sipper? It was a hot day, a Marlbourough sauvignon blanc.
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I really like this new feature! It’s nice to see what other people are drinking, because it always gives me new ideas. Can’t wait to see what some of your other Special Guests are sipping!
glad you liked it shauna!
Hey!!!!!!!!! Rachel!!!!!!!! Please give Rachel my info.. we’re long lost friends from St.Louis..