What is your Holy Grail of Booze that you want to buy, or at least try - Tiki Drinks and Food

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Thu, May 24, 2012 6:09 PM If you're in the states and feeling frisky with your dough and wanna splurge on something from the UK, note that from the states you don't have to pay the VAT. So the yankee prices on Whisky Exchange are the smaller gray numbers. Course you've got a whopper of a shipping bill though. I think Havana Club is overrated as a sipper though, even at their top range. I've had the 15yr, and have a work acquaintance with the MAXIMO. Neither one really sends off fireworks. Some of the really cool holy grail stuff on TWE is the one-off old bottles that show up from time to time. Like right now there's a Barbancourt 5 star bottled in the 1940s, for a mere 582 pounds. Or this Cuban rum from pre-Castro time. Compared to the megabucks Maximo, a truly vintage Cuban rum offers some of the same mystique without supporting a dictator thug. If I were to order some premium rums from TWE, here's my short list... Doorly's XO Rum Widely considered a benchmark for good Barbados rum (as attributed to Stephen Remsberg by The Bum), but darn if I can find it stateside. Mezan 1995 Panama Rum / Don Jose Heard good things about the same (?) rum from Renegade, which is biggo buckso, but this looks more affordable and might be from the same batch. Bermudez 1852 Aniversario XM Banks Demerara 10yr XM Banks Demerara 12yr Already have these, but want to replenish stocks! Randy

If you're in the states and feeling frisky with your dough and wanna splurge on something from the UK, note that from the states you don't have to pay the VAT. So the yankee prices on Whisky Exchange are the smaller gray numbers. Course you've got a whopper of a shipping bill though.

I think Havana Club is overrated as a sipper though, even at their top range. I've had the 15yr, and have a work acquaintance with the MAXIMO. Neither one really sends off fireworks. Some of the really cool holy grail stuff on TWE is the one-off old bottles that show up from time to time. Like right now there's a Barbancourt 5 star bottled in the 1940s, for a mere 582 pounds. Or this Cuban rum from pre-Castro time. Compared to the megabucks Maximo, a truly vintage Cuban rum offers some of the same mystique without supporting a dictator thug. If I were to order some premium rums from TWE, here's my short list...

Doorly's XO Rum
Widely considered a benchmark for good Barbados rum (as attributed to Stephen Remsberg by The Bum), but darn if I can find it stateside.

Mezan 1995 Panama Rum / Don Jose
Heard good things about the same (?) rum from Renegade, which is biggo buckso, but this looks more affordable and might be from the same batch.

Bermudez 1852 Aniversario
XM Banks Demerara 10yr
XM Banks Demerara 12yr
Already have these, but want to replenish stocks!

Randy

Post #637764 by aquarj on Thu, May 24, 2012 6:09 PM