I miss the good old days when people could actually drink and smoke in commercials. OK, so I actually couldn't care less; it doesn't really change my commercial viewing pleasure in the slightest. There is something about seeing Sammy Davis Jr. actually drink the whisky though that speaks directly to my soul and makes me want to sit down with a few fingers of delicious booze. Whisky has never been this jazzy before, so it's gotta be good. Don't confuse Sammy's endorsement though to mean that all jazzy liquors are created equal.
Back in my collegiate days, I, like many, had a liquor bottle collection growing on the wall. My rules were simple: nothing less than 40 proof and no repeats. The collecting ended in the neighborhood of 160 bottles, so as you can imagine I started to get into some interesting choices. One that I came across was Jazz Vodka. Let me tell you, that shit sucks. It's what started my belief that the more interesting the bottle, the worse the booze. Trust me, stay away from creative bottles.
