Right Gin<\/a>, which I haven’t picked up a bottle of yet.<\/p>\nNo, I don’t have any resolutions for 2011. Why do you ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I planned to try out 12 new (to me) gins in 2010. I was going to write about one each month and add a “My Year of Gin” feature to my blog. I gave up on that idea pretty quickly and decided to sample a whole bunch over the course of the year: If you … <\/p>\n
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