The Spritis Of Giving

December, 1992

A gift of liquor is one of the easiest ways to cure those who-gets-what holiday blues. Then, too, this year's bottle could well end up on your own back bar. Who but the most generous Santa would bestow Courvoisier's $3750 Succession "J.L." cognac on anyone but himself? Or a $3000 Glenfiddich 30-year-old single-malt Scotch that's sold in an imported crystal decanter with a sterling-silver stag's-head stopper? But the ultimate holiday liquid asset is being offered by Jim Beam—an oak barr...