Post #205546 by I dream of tiki on Tue, Jan 3, 2006 7:00 PM

Miami & in the area residents.... yet another cut above the rest liquor store has been found.

Sun Liquors
1646 SW 27 Ave
Miami, FJ 33145
phone: (305)442-0814
Fax: (305) 442-9297

When you approach the outside of the building, it doesn't look like much. Not flashy or anything like ABC or some Crown Wine & Spirits. Then you walk in and its like entering an oasis.

Liquers:
UPDATE 8/23/06: Ever since I bought the last bottle of MB Orange Curacao, they have ceased to reorder it. Bummer.
Marie Brizzard: Creme de Banane, Peach (Peche), Apry, Cacao, Creme de Cacao, Grand Orange, Rasberry de Bordeaux, Creme de Menthe, Cassis de Bordeaux.Also had some Bols and the usual Hiram Walker and another brand I'm not used to seeing.

Alas, no Demarara rum. No demand in the area. BUT the rum selection had lots of pluses.

• Flor de Cana, the usual selection as well as Flor de Cana Centenario 15 and 21 year
• Ron Zacapa Centenario 15 and 23 year
• Meyers Legend 10
• Mt. Gay: Special Reserve, Sugar Cane and Extra Old
• Santa Teresa: Orange Rum, 1796 Solera, Gran Reserva, and Superior
• Zaya
• Ron Centenario: Anejo Especial and Commemorativo
• Coruba
• Cohiba
• Matusalem Platino, Classico, & Gran Reserva
• Angustura 1919 dark rum 8 yr and Angustura dark rum 5 yr
• Larger than usual selection of Aguardiente
• Ron Barcelo: Anejo, Gran Anejo, Emperador and one other type
• Ron Botran (multiple ages, up to the 12 year)
• Ron Viejo de Caldas: 3 year and now the 8 YEAR - YUM!!!!)
• Ron Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva(an excellent Venezelan rum that Mario had open for tasting)
• Appleton Estate and Estate Special
• Montecristo 12 yr
• mini bottles of Pyrat Pistol
• various cachacas from Brazil (Cachaca 51, etc)
  UPDATE:
  New Rums of interest:
• Two new rums from Martinique - Depaz cane syrup & Depaz blue cane rhum agricole
• More variations of Ron Diplomatico - Anejo and a Reserva

Mario Ledesma, the manager, also displayed some of the other lovely items they have in stock, which included some beautifully decorated and hand blown bottles of tequila and other spirits. Had a larger than usual brandy selection, including more brandies from Spain. For those of you not from the area, this store is a part of Miami that is heavily hispanic concentrated. No wonder products from Spain and South America are considerablt more prevalent than the liquor stores I visited 40 miles further north.

Mario claims to have tasted all the rums, so a discussion with him on quality and characteristics was pretty cool. He had an open bottle of Ron Diplomatico from Venezuela, which tasted divine. He can arrange for a small party of folks to have a meal(paella, etc) and bottle of wine at the store. He'll only charge minimally to cover the expense of the food and the stores' price of the bottle(s) of wine. Anyone interested should give Mario 2-3 days notice to hold a sitting. You can contact him by phone or send other inquiries to his email at .

I did ask Mario about El Dorado. Without research, he could not give me a difinitive answer if they could get it or not. However, he said that perhaps it can be purchased and transported up from the 2 stores in the Keys that I was able to find El Dorado.

Happy hunting, my fellow rum seekers. An adventure can await at the least expected store.

[ Edited by: I dream of tiki 2006-08-23 08:52 ]