People who are passionate about what they do are the best kind of people. Be they a barber, a masseuse, or, idk, a chess player. They're good eggs.
I strolled in to this bottle-o looking like a uni student with my cap backwards and spray-on jeans and the manager could have pointed me to the Bacardi Breezers and gone back to writing in his stocktake notebook, but instead he wandered over, enquired about my night, and started pointing at different types of booze and telling me the stories behind them.
I got the low-down on Moo Brew (wamp wamp), and heard about the newly-crowned #1 whisky in the world from - you'll never guess - Tasmania, a drop called Sullivan's, first editions of which go for $2500 these days.
I walked out of there with some Lord Nelson Three Sheets and a renewed faith in the human nature at the heart of the booze slinger. read more