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The Encumbrance of Puritanism In the Anglo-Saxon culture, to drink alcohol has always been frowned upon by one part of the people. Their sinful fellow citizens were to feel guilty and miserable... Puritan tradition considers all pleasure tainted with sin. Well, if drinking pleasure is a sin, cognac is the devil in liquid form. Sitting there, a cognac in hand, at the right moment and in the right place, is one of the most uninhibited and pure pleasures that be. Filling your nostrils with the perfumes of the brew, trying to identify the hints to spices, to cocoa... and then, moistening your lips, letting a few drops to descend into the middle of the tongue... Then I like the feeling of the vapors from the nose mixing with the endless nuances of taste, whirling around in the mouth... Guilt? Not really. I like one cognac for thinking, a dark and rancio XO Borderies, that helps me to get back onto myself, isolating me from the outside world in seconds. Then, for socializing, I like another one, completely different, a very pale VSOP with a distinct flavor of white pepper. I often wonder where those different effects of the same product can come from... Perhaps the senses are wiser than what one could judge from the sensations they convey to our minds; perhaps, as has been said, there are things in the savors that never make it to the rational part of the brain. Perhaps my sociable cognac, light and almost wine-like to its behavior, is just the flexible, permissive and indulgent companion that one likes to have handy when it comes to it... But one thing am I positive about: that I enjoy my "introvert" cognac as much as my social cognac and that I enjoy myself as much as I can in both situations. Now, what is more important, what should we strive more eagerly for: being able to enjoy ourselves when being with others or when we are alone? That's question I have to think over one of these days. With the help of my Borderies XO friend, of course.
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