My friend John

You don't meet too many people like John.  You think you have him pegged when you find out he's got a PhD in artificial intelligence and he has a job at NASA shooting rockets to the moon.  You're thinking if you've first met him at a convention mixer you'd end up talking about the minutia of the moon's gravity map (by the way, the moon's gravity map is still not well known according to John).

Nope.

You'd more likely to spend your time talking about Russian film directors or modern dance or the impact of bebop jazz influences on Jack Kerouac.  Maybe you two would talk about poetry or painting or another dozen topics that John throughly understands.

John has a bar nickname as well.  TequilaJohn is how I first came to know him.  It was rumored he had a PhD in tequila or he was a Demigod in tequila (both are available here by the way)  He does know his way around the blanco, the reposado, the añeho.  Anyhow, I really like John and have spent many an hour talking about everything under the sun as well as playing music together.  Lately sometimes we get together to do tiny tastings of a concentrated area or type.
I had emailed him about some special Fino Sherry that the Spanish Table was importing.  This is a Fino that Gonzalez Byass makes from a tiny amount of barrels that they keep separate from the rest of their production.
Instead of fortifying to 17% to kill off the flor, this Fino they let sit until sugars are consumed naturally.
There are only 120 bottles being imported in four age levels.
We decide to buy a bottle and split the cost and taste it while we snack on almonds and spanish olives, talk and listen to good music.  I'm thinking Manitas de Plata would right.  Maybe Astor Piazzola in a mixed metaphor type of way.

It's a beautiful label and the color within just sings when held to the sunlight.  Looks good in the dark too.