Ti - toki Liqueur

Has anyone tasted this stuff? It has a great looking decanter. Check it out here:
http://www.ti-toki.com/

I sent an email to inquire about U.S. availability and receive the following response:

Thanks for your enquiry to Phillippa at Federal Geo. Like yourself, we love Ti-toki Liqueur. So much so that we purchased the company after it had almost completely disappeared. We have been concentrating on rejuvenating the domestic market here in NZ but unfortunately we are not geared up for export yet.
There are no sales outlets overseas at present. The only way would be to airmail one to you but unfortunately it is prohibited to mail alcohol into the US unless it is imported by a licenced Dealer. If you know of one, let me know.
Sorry I can't be of further help at this stage.
Best regards,
Lloyd Ellis
Managing Director
[email protected]

Perhaps someone knows of a U.S. distributor willing to take a chance on Ti-toki. Maybe it could become the official liqueur of Tiki Central?

Maybe he can just send the bottles :)

floratina wrote:
Maybe he can just send the bottles

Yes SoBeTiki. Ask if he can sell "display bottles" like Red Rum does with their Red Rum (rum) & Voodoo Spiced Rum bottles (see http://www.redrum.com). It's worth a try.

SugarCaddyDaddy

On 2002-10-25 09:02, SoBeTiki wrote:

Perhaps someone knows of a U.S. distributor willing to take a chance on Ti-toki. Maybe it could become the official liqueur of Tiki Central?

hey, how about the guys who sell the Pisco in Moai Bottles... Hi Time Wine -

http://www.hitimewine.com

[email protected]

they've been very responsive to our orders..
keep us informed!!
elicia

I'm going to ask if it's legal to mail booze to Canada. Worth a shot, eh?

I'm going to ask if it's legal to mail booze to Canada. Worth a shot, eh?

Hey SoBe... he's from New Zealand. Just slip him $10 bucks AMERICAN He'll take it!

On 2002-10-25 12:01, dogbytes wrote:

On 2002-10-25 09:02, SoBeTiki wrote:

Perhaps someone knows of a U.S. distributor willing to take a chance on Ti-toki. Maybe it could become the official liqueur of Tiki Central?

hey, how about the guys who sell the Pisco in Moai Bottles... Hi Time Wine -

http://www.hitimewine.com

[email protected]

they've been very responsive to our orders..
keep us informed!!
elicia

Great idea, elicia!

Any updates on this situation? I was gonna swing by Hi-Time to pick up another Moai Pisco Decanter so I can check on this Maori Decanter as well if there has been no resolution to this quandry.

I gotta get me one of these Maori Decanters!

got a reply, no can do on the canadian shipment. Ah well, I had visions of reliving the prohibition days, with all you americans sneaking across the border to findle my decanters...

bump!
any updates on getting this nifty decanter?

Here you go boys & girls....the bottle for sale on ebay. It comes from Australia (mate).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=128&item=753798459

another:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13765&item=2153290792

SugarCaddyDaddy

This Daddy's Caddy & The Tiki Transporter

Hmmm...I should have been TraderFrank

[ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-01-07 23:36 ]

On 2002-10-26 14:12, tikimug wrote:
he's from New Zealand. Just slip him $10 bucks AMERICAN He'll take it!

Steady on old chap. New Zealand is a highly civilised country with a strong economy. If you were to insult him with a measly $10, he'd be well within his rights to react with the traditional Maori gesture of defiance - the stuck-out tongue.

Trader Woody

got a short email back from High Times, they dont carry it, they won't be carrying it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3227962697&category=563

Here's another bottle going cheap!

Ha!

Notice the description starts out with "I'm lightening the load on my husband's bar...".

I wonder if the husband knows!

SugarCaddyDaddy's Schedule of Stuff!

[ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-06-12 09:51 ]

Ok, thread from the dead.

No, this one doesn't come in a little tiny decanter but good to know of for that day when you need to mix one Ti-toki cocktail.

http://www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/en/cp/Ti_toki_Liqueur_50ml

http://www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/advanced_search_result.php?search_in_description=1&search_in_cat=1&keywords=ti-toki

cheers

Edmonton TC-ers are invited over to the Bachelor Bastion to help me partake in the Ti-Toki my niece brought from New Zealand.

In box

"Ti-toki Liqueur - A history

In the mid-1970's a West Aukland winemaker drew inspiration from the surrounding native flora to create a distinctive New Zealand liqueur.

It took three years of bubbling mixtures on her coal range to distill the desired rustic flavours. Using indigenous plants such as kawakawa, manuka leaves and the oils from the ti-toki tree berry - these unique flavours became 'Ti-toki Liqueur'.

Described as the 'original' liqueur of the South Pacific from 1979, Ti-toki liqueur was enjoyed both in NZ and abroad.

Its distinctive taste and iconic ceramic decanter became legendary.

Today, many years after that inspirational bushwalk, Ti-toki liqueur retains its original aroma and smooth taste..."

"The Ti-toki Liqueur ceramic crock is in the shape of a "tekoteko", the carved figure typically found at the apex of the whare tipuna (ancestral house).

The iconic tekoteko crock was carved by maori carver Hemara Hemara in the late 1970's and were originally produced by Crown Lynn.

Available in a beautiful greenstone-inspired glaze with paua eyes, these crocks are now lovingly made in a small ceramics studio minutes from Muriwai Beach, north-west of Aukland."

Ti-toki Liqueur & Gingerbeer

1 Part Ti-toki Liqueur
3 Parts Gingerbeer
Serve with crushed ice, finely chopped mint and sliced lemon.

Marked "Made in Aotearoa" (New Zealand}, and numbered 4583.

You know how to get ahold of me. Do it soon cuz there's only 500ml and once I've cracked this sucker it's gonna go fast (unless it's pure shite of course).

K, I'm there!

Anybody have a decent short-ingredient recipe they like for this stuff? I'm in Arizona and just came across a bottle of it at my friend's house. Eight years old never opened!

Mr. Ho