CalvadoonGreat news! Bonny Doon is running a sale on its excellent Calvadoon right now: $50 a bottle (regularly $75) is the 2008 price, and worth every penny for Randall Grahm's unique take on apple brandy.

My brilliant nephew gave me a bottle for Christmas last year. We had made a sojourn to Bonny Doon's new tasting room and cafe in Santa Cruz just after Thanksgiving. They couldn't let us taste the stuff, but we did sample their excellent pommeau. Anyway, I meant to review the Calvadoon for the Winter of Apple, but unfortunately I drank it all and promptly forgot what it tasted like.

If somebody would buy me another bottle -- in the interest of good journalism, of course -- I would be much obliged. Merry Christmas!