I grew up in the South, and we can trace our maturation by our taste in bourbon. In high school, it was Southern Comfort and Coke, and in college Wild Turkey (the kickin chicken) and Coke and the Kickin Chicken saw us into our post-college years when we got fancy and drank it on the rocks as our fathers did. Much to our surprise, and chagrin, Bourbon has become extremely popular. Weller’s is no longer $30 a bottle, nor Blanton’s at $50. Pappy is obscenely priced. We have a few bottles of Pappy at home that we bought for next to nothing, and a few bottles of Black Maple that we bought for $35/bottle, only to see the price surge to more than $2500. I’ve heard that Chinese buyers have developed a taste for our bourbon, and Cuban cigars, which is why prices have become divorced from reality. I’m ready for everyone to once more think that Bourbon is for rednecks, which those in the know understand to be nonsense as it is a well-established fact that Bourbon is the preferred drink of angels in Heaven, and the Almighty.