Tiki Central / Tiki Drinks and Food / Plantation Xaymaca roll call
Post #794927 by Hurricane Hayward on Sat, May 4, 2019 5:06 PM
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As theoutoftownlocal posted earlier, Xaymaca has been in the Total Wine system in Florida for some time, but unfortunately not available everywhere. I was lucky enough to stock up in March. My initial tastes had to be neat and in a classic Planter's Punch. ...
Since then, I've tried a few other cocktails (all stellar) but I've mainly been busy putting it to the test as a Kohala Bay replacement. On its own, it won't work, but mixed 50/50 with Coruba it's showing quite a bit of potential.
The ongoing research is posted over on the Kohala Bay thread: Re Total Wine, unfortunately it looks like it was some sort of limited release. I went to my local store in Coral Springs, which didn't have it. But I was told it was available in Plantation and three Palm Beach County stores (Boca, Boynton and PB Gardens). I didn't ask about Miami-Dade. I was also told that it was "discontinued," which seems odd since it just recently arrived. When I searched the Website, it said "Produced in very limited amounts, not currently available" but then it displayed the same four stores that I was told had it. After clearing off the shelf in Plantation, I headed to Boca, which revealed another lesson about Total Wine. It was not on the shelf, no empty slot, no sign that it had ever been there. But my guy in Coral Springs assured me they had a case. This was just a week or so later. It couldn't have sold and been removed from inventory that fast. I questioned the guy at the customer service desk, who found the case in the system but scratched his head when I showed him the rum aisle with no Xaymaca in sight. So he called in the guy whose job was to stock the rum shelves. He too scratched his head, looked around and wondered aloud where it could be. Maybe the case just got set aside and forgotten, I suggested. Sure enough, he climbed up a gigantic ladder to access the many cases stacked above the shelves and there it was, buried beneath dozens of cases of Bacardi and whatnot. He pulled it down and offered it up. But I was feeling charitable and only took half the case. I haven't been back, but I'm assuming the other half case finally was put on display. Lesson: The Total Wine computer system is very accurate. The guys stocking the shelves are not. FYI: I just checked TotalWine.com again and it's showing Xaymaca at 16 stores within 200 miles of me, including the same four mentioned above. But I would have a live person check their back-end system just to be sure before trekking a long distance. Events, music, art, cocktails, culture [ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2019-05-04 17:11 ] |
