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hartsmar Jul 13 2008, 12:04 PM
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"Absinthe Suisse" was the highest quality designation possible in the era, indicating a naturally coloured absinthe of the finest quality. The wording "Grande Distillerie Lyonnaise" almost certainly indicates that this was manufactured by the Ferrand Freres distillery in Lyon.
AVERAGE SCORE 96
Reviewed by Mthuilli 3/29/2008
COLOR BEFORE WATER 10/10
Splendid feuille morte with a beautiful orange tint, a forest in autumn.
LOUCHE ACTION 10/10
Quick and thick! Me likes!
COLOR AFTER WATER 10/10
Still has that wonderful amber/orange tint.
AROMA 28/30
Hard to beat such a floral bouquet, an explosion. A great panel of fruity and fresh aromas that mainly includes green anise, then angelica, then a bit of A.a. and a few others hard to identify because of the wonderful mixture of perfumes.
MOUTH-FEEL 8/10
Milky and savory. I was expecting it to be a bit more creamy because of the wonderful thick louche.
TASTE 19/20
Definitely not a Pontarlier style absinthe, a real change and a real blast for my palate, the most unusual vintage absinthe I've ever tasted. That angelica is incredibly perfumed, I've never tasted it that way in any modern absinthe. And the green anise is as fruity and biting as the one in PF 1914.
OVERALL IMPRESSION 10/10
I want more, I'm still sniffing the empty sample bottle with a straw.
I was married with the wonderful Pernod Fils from Pontarlier, now I have a mistress from Lyon.
Mthuilli scores Absinthe Suisse Grande Distillerie Lyonnaise, circa 1895 95 out of 100
Reviewed by hartsmar 7/23/2008
COLOR BEFORE WATER 10/10
A beautiful dead leaf brown/amber with a hint of orange. Not too dark - very inviting.
LOUCHE ACTION 10/10
It builds up wonderfully and steadily from the bottom. A perfect louching which ends up as a textbook example of The Louche.
COLOR AFTER WATER 10/10
It shows a very interesting and beautiful hint of peachy color mixed with a bit of green and of course the classic brownish yellow so well known from the pre-bans.
AROMA 28/30
Before water it is very floral with the most wonderful perfume. A nice Angelica touch finely tuned with a nice scent of fruity wormwood and fine anise. A slight hint of Veronica is present and it's all nicely balanced and rounded.
After water it turns into full bloom and with an amazing freshness it is highly intriguing. This is actually one of the finer aromas I've encountered in a pre-ban to date.
MOUTH-FEEL 10/10
Wow! The creaminess and richness of this is amazing. An absinthe this thick and creamy is often otherwise a bit tongue numbing or too coating in the mouth, but this is not. Very nice!
TASTE 18/20
A little less actually than expected from the wonderful aroma and mouth-feel but absolutely great. Each major ingredient is nicely present without taking over the show and the taste is nicely balanced.
OVERALL IMPRESSION 10/10
For once I'm truly impressed. I've had several vintage absinthes of various ages but only very few have been this good. I'm amazed by the level of quality and character this absinthe shows after almost 115 years. This is what absinthe is all about.
hartsmar scores Absinthe Suisse Grande Distillerie Lyonnaise, circa 1895 96 out of 100
August 10, 2009
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To each their own tastes, but this is just ridiculous.
Biographer claims that Michael Jackson spent last hours 'high as a kite' and writing poetry
Biographer claims that Michael Jackson spent last hours 'high as a kite' and writing poetry
By Greig Box Turnbull 10/08/2009
Tormented Michael Jackson wrote scary poetry during a nightmare 12 final hours in which he pleaded to see his father, it was claimed yesterday.
Jacko's biographer Ian Halperin said the star slumped into a drug-fuelled breakdown and began writing poems in the early hours.
Mr Halperin claimed: "He was as high as a kite. What he wrote was dark, sort of frightening.
"The poems were found, hanging in his room on strings. He was over the edge."
For the next 40 minutes he sat on his bed reading the Bible and crying.
Mr Halperin also claimed the singer had snapped and demanded his 50 London gigs be called off and cried out for his 80-year-old dad Joe - shouting that he was the only person he could trust.
The author alleged when Jacko was told his dad was not available he ordered Dr Conrad Murray, who is being investigated by police, to give him drugs to "put him out".
Mr Halperin said: "Michael was cracking up. He had been injecting himself for over 12 hours, he said for excruciating pain. "He begged to see his father but was told they couldn't get hold of him."If Joe Jackson had seen him that night, I believe Michael would still be alive."
Mr Halperin said Jacko had left his bedroom at 2.40pm still dressed in his pyjamas, adding: "He was a bit high but struck up a conversation with an aide. He reminisced about his childhood."
Michael then returned to his bedroom, refused to take calls and cancelled a rehearsal. The author went on: "He couldn't keep in sync because of drugs and pain. Three days earlier, he had said he had 'made a deal with the devil'."
In the early hours on the day of his death in June, Jacko appeared "scared and angry", said Mr Halperin. He revealed the singer's aides told him Michael had been listening to music.
The author continued: "He listened to classics for a couple of hours. Then he switched to the Gipsy Kings, which was odd. They weren't exactly Michael's thing. His mood was extremely chaotic."
Mr Halperin said Jacko took a call at 1.20am and claimed: "He got in a shouting match about finances. That was when Michael said he was calling off the tour. He said some advisers didn't care about his welfare. I've been told he was crying.
"He demanded an aide call his father.
He said his father was the only person who could 'clean up the mess'."
Erin Andrews Video Turns Into Media Blow
Erin Andrews peephole video turns into media blow-up
Media blow-up over Erin Andrews peephole video July 23, 2009
Unsporting ... ESPN reporter Erin Andrews seeking to press charges over peephole video.
ESPN banned staffers from the New York Post from appearing on any of its programming on Wednesday after the newspaper published photos this week taken from a video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room.
The Post published three images from the blurry video Tuesday.
"While we understand the Post's decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism," ESPN senior vice president of communications Chris LaPlaca said in a statement Wednesday night.
Newspaper reporters are regular guests on ESPN shows.
Post spokesman Howard Rubenstein did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
The Post was one of several TV networks and newspapers that aired or published images from the video, which Andrews' attorney says was shot without her knowledge. Andrews plans to seek criminal charges and file civil lawsuits against the person who shot the video and anyone who publishes the material, attorney Marshall Grossman said.
Kelly McBride, a journalism ethics expert with the Florida-based Poynter Institute, said it was unethical for news organizations to show images from the Andrews video.
"There is some illegally obtained material, leaked documents or video of a CIA person torturing a soldier, or stuff taken out of Gitmo, that I think has great public importance," McBride said. "But this doesn't do that at all.
"I actually do believe in giving the audience what they want to certain restraints, and I think this clearly crosses that line," she said. "I don't think with a straight face you could justify this on journalistic grounds."
The blurry, five-minute video shows Andrews standing in front of a hotel room mirror, fixing her hair in the nude. It's unknown when or where it was shot.
Andrews, 31, has covered hockey, college football, college basketball and Major League Baseball for the network since 2004, often as a sideline reporter during games.
A former dance team member at the University of Florida, she was something of an Internet sensation even before the video's circulation. She has been referred to as "Erin Pageviews" because of the traffic that video clips and photos of her generate, and Playboy magazine named her "sexiest sportscaster" in both 2008 and 2009.
It was not clear when the video first appeared on the Internet. Most of the links to it had been removed by Tuesday.
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