Reunion

 

The Cabinet's last meeting was ten months ago, in September, and that was one of only three meetings for all of 2020. Then came the long winter of the second wave of covid, followed by the long spring of the third wave. But now it is summer and now we are all fully vaccinated and there is no fourth wave. Not yet.

So a joyful reunion was held in The Cabinet's summer quarters on the banks of the low and fast Assiniboine River on a misty smoky evening this week. As we have been hiatus and no dues were collected this year, no new purchases had been made. But that was not a problem as our whisky stocks have great depth, and from that great depth I pulled four recent favourites: the Lagavulin Distiller's Edition, the Laphroaig Cairdeas, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, and, most favourite of all, the Highland Park 18.

We toasted to members absent and members past, and we toasted to Pierre Albany, the Metis farmer who first owned this land in the mid 1800s, and we watched raccoons and pelicans, and we listened to the alternating murmur and howl of the city. 

Proper blog posts with whisky descriptions and rants about various noxious aspects of the industry will resume once we are truly back in our accustomed Cabinet rhythm. But for now it's enough to record that we enjoyed each pour and we enjoyed the night, as we always have and always will.

Slainte!