la part des anges...The Angels Share
Journal Entry: 1/8/18
Once upon a time there were two sisters...
Ura Aging is the sister of Imma Wrinking. They are Ole Maid school teachers. Both are retired and live in Fisher, a small sawmill village owned by 4L Lumber Company.
On most days you might spot them sitting on their front porch drinking the Angles Share of Pappy Van Winkle. If you ask them what they are drinking, it will always be the cry, "
”23 year old Angels Share."
I like the number 23. It's a fitting age to end on for whiskey and has played a central role in every important event in history. When you start looking, it all seems so obvious: Julius Caesar stabbed 23 times. Michael Jordan’s jersey number, and of course, 23 year old Pappy Van Winkle.
Now if you know anything about good whiskey you will know the Pappy blend is quiet sought after and hard to come by. Considered the most expensive bourbon in the world.
How anyone gets Pappy is somewhat of a mystery. Some serendipity combined with a little bit of luck I suppose. Each year around Thanksgiving, Buffalo Trace Distillery begins allocating their yearly allotment. Only a ridiculously small amount of Pappy is distributed to liquor stores; most of the bottles go to bars and restaurants where an ounce can go for $100.
Now don't get Pappy Van Winkle and Rip Van Winkle confused. Rip took to the woods to escape from a nagging wife, drank some Dutch elixir and feel asleep for twenty years. Since that time henpecked husbands often wish they could have a sip of Rip Van Winkle's elixir to sleep through their own wives' nagging..
No one knows how Imma and Ura acquire their Pappy. I personally think it is their good looks. All in all, it seems to help their arthritis. The sisters stay busy making casserole dishes for the widowed and posting on Facebook. On rare occasions, they have been spotted late at night, skinny dipping in the mill pond with brothers John and Vern Funderburk. Quiet the gossip around the village. Must be the Angels share of Pappy taking hold?
May all the Angels be your sheltering and joyful guardians...May you partake of the Angels share of life before it is to late...Doc
