I like them legs: Metaxa Grand Fine

As I sit watching out the paráthyro (It's Greek, παράθυρο, look it up), my glass has a brown burgundy glow. Close to the hair color of the girl sunbathing out my window. I gaze downstairs through my glass and focus. Sweet cookie aroma, slightly spicy, and a floral fragrance that rises and travels, filling the mind. Pleasantly warmed, I sit in the shining sun and contemplate her intoxicating perfume. The brandy swirls as I rise out of my chair. The twirling liquid leaves long slick legs along the sides. Walking past the windows, I look down the glass and get lost in those lush legs.

I plop on my couch. As I sink, I drink. Sweet velvet and spicy roses, with a pleasant, but perilous bite of alcohol, that seduces a smile from me. Lying on my couch, the flavor fades and I'm left with images of the warm sun and her perfume.

Metaxa is a Greek distillery that produces several styles of liquors, but are most well known for their "brandy". A brandy is distilled wine that has been aged on oak. Metaxa's version takes a high proof brandy and dilutes it down with white muscat grapes. Shortly after a special herb blend (which does include rose petals) and then aged on limousine oak. The are five main ages: 3, 5, 7, and 12 star (stars referring to the number of years of the youngest brandy in the blend). The last is a Grand Reserve that is blended with 20-30 year old barrels. Other special editions are occasionally released. I was drinking the Grand Fine which is a special edition blend that is an extra old blend (some of the brandies used are 40 years old) and then bottled in a Greek amphora painted with a floral design.