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Wray & Nephew 17 Yr Old
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cheekytiki
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09/02/2005
I don't know if anybody read in Tiki events about us getting a bottle of this rum for the London Luau, but this is apparently the original rum used by Vic in the creation of the Mai Tai. |
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Urban Tiki
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09/02/2005
Wow am I jealous! Good luck with the auction, widh I could be there. |
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Rum Numb Davey
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09/02/2005
Cheeky: I am befuddled. If Trader Vic Bergeron created the first Mai Tai in 1944 utilizing the Wray & Nephew 17 year old expression, we know that the distillery under Lindo leadership laid down stock he utilized in 1926-27. Vic claimed that by 1946, that Mai Tai's had become so popular that he utilized all the remaining 17 year old stock that Wray & Nephew had in bond. Vic then adjusted his original Mai Tai to the 15-year old J. Wray Nephew Rum, but exhausted a second supply by the mid Fifties. Finally, the Trader had his own 8 and 15 y.o Jamaican rum under the Trader Vic's label, but because it lacked the nutty rancio of the original J.Wray rum, he vatted an ounce of Martinique Rum into his Mai Tai recipe. Let us note, that Victor Bergeron was a very critical and forceful VIP client in his day. If Wray and Nephew had stock to sell and satisfy him they would not hold stock from him. No rum company would have. That means for Appleton to have an actual 17 year old Wray & Nephew Rum available for you that they laid down a batch in sometime in 1987-88. Not in 1926-27, which was the birth of Vic's batch. That would make your rum a 79 y.o J.Wray rum, and if you put that in a Mai Tai instead of a snifter, it would be a tragic waste of aged rum, my friend. It certainly would taste nothing like the original Trader Vic mai tai of 1944. Before the Revolution, the per capita consumption of RUM in the Colonies was 3.7 gallons PER person. We have become a Neo-temperant nation of wimps and quitters! We must rise, Tiki Nation, and raise our ceramic mugs in resistance to teatotaling! [ Edited by: Rum Numb Davey 2005-09-02 10:39 ] |
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cheekytiki
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Rum Numb, by what I have been told but it sounds like a reasonable story. This cask was never produced specially, they also thought there was none left until this barrel was found was found, that is why it is so special. |
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Rum Numb Davey
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09/02/2005
Much appreciated, Cheeky my man, Trust me...I want it to be so. Warehouseman George: "Hey Stanly..look what I found under this White Stephenson Sugar bag!" Just really hard to swallow that this rum was the RUM that Vic utilized oh so many years ago! Please remember....taxes..excise..lost revenue..documentation....people's jobs on the line...theft control..money. All factors in this cask, who hid himself away to avoid being consumed. The smoke as much weed in "Blue Grass" state Kentucky as the do in Jamaica, and those hilltoppers don't lose cask. They manage the distillery like Ft. Knox manages gold. Every valuable nugget accounted for. Please follow up on the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/Harry Potter mystery, "The Lost Cask of Azkaban." Before the Revolution, the per capita consumption of RUM in the Colonies was 3.7 gallons PER person. We have become a Neo-temperant nation of wimps and quitters! We must rise, Tiki Nation, and raise our ceramic mugs in resistance to teatotaling! [ Edited by: Rum Numb Davey 2005-09-02 11:33 ] [ Edited by: Rum Numb Davey 2005-09-02 11:34 ] |
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