Post #297521 by Scottes on Sat, Apr 7, 2007 3:29 PM

I joined Ed Hamilton's new "Rum Lover's" forum, and caught yet another thread about the $1400 Mai Tai. The second post, from anguswinchester, is very interesting giving some inside information about this.

http://ministryofrum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36

What I found truly interesting is how he describes the 17-year-old Wray and Nephew rum orignally used: "...it is heavy red colour with an intensely smokey taste... not unlike a scotch."

I had not thought that a smokey rum would make for a good Mai Tai. I'm sure the complexity of a 17-year-old rum would be excellent, but I'd think that something "intensely smokey" would fit.

And now I have to make sure that I try a Mai Tai with my Gosling's Old Rum, or the Pampero Anniversario....