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  • Don Papa Rum

    Aged Rum — Philippines

    Reviewed April 18, 2019
    2.0
    2.0 out of 5 stars
    Beautiful label on the bottle, and the first sip impressed me, but further sips made me recognize how absurdly sweet it is with little else going for it. Tastes more like a liqueur than a rum. Or cough syrup. Or cream soda. Lots of vanilla and sticky sweetness. Other notes are down there (like clove), but they're way down. Works fine as a mixer in sweeter drinks, but that's about it.
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  • Rémy Martin VSOP Cognac

    Cognac — Cognac, France

    Reviewed August 30, 2018
    3.0
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    42.0 USD per Bottle
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  • Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal Cognac

    Cognac — Cognac, France

    Reviewed August 30, 2018
    4.25
    4.25 out of 5 stars
    Created as a middle point between their VSOP and XO, but this is vastly better than their VSOP, and possibly my favorite cognac under $100. Rich and luxurious, coats your palate with candied orange, toffee, vanilla. Intense, medium length finish. Incredibly smooth and balanced.
    52.0 USD per Bottle
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  • The Botanist Gin

    Modern Gin — Islay, Scotland

    Reviewed September 11, 2017 (edited April 18, 2019)
    4.75
    4.75 out of 5 stars
    Given how they play up their Islay heritage and the "9 standard botanicals and 22 hand-foraged" ones, you'd think it would be a very flavor-forward gin, but it's clean and exceptionally smooth. If you want a classic dry martini without a lot of juniper or other competing flavors, this is among the best.
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  • High West Double Rye

    Rye — (bottled in) Utah, USA

    Reviewed March 31, 2017
    4.0
    4.0 out of 5 stars
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  • Junipero Gin

    London Dry Gin — California, USA

    Reviewed March 31, 2017 (edited May 20, 2020)
    4.0
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Overwhelming juniper right up front that you can smell with the glass six inches from your nose, and I mean that in a good way. Also has a very smooth taste for being slightly overproofed for the category. Martini, G&T or on the rocks, this is top shelf if you like 'em dry.
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  • Lemon Hart 151 Rum

    Gold Rum — Guyana

    Reviewed March 31, 2017 (edited November 15, 2018)
    4.0
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    An essential ingredient in several tiki drinks, including the fabled 151 Swizzle, a top-5 tiki drink of mine. Lemon Hart 151 is a very tough find in the US as it's only produced and/or imported sporadically. Veterans of this rum often talk about the differences between batches, claiming the newer, yellow label version isn't as good as the red label, which wasn't as good as the one before. Whatever. It's a beautiful rum for an overproof, reeking of molasses, cinnamon, and orange, and one of the most fabled and essential tiki rums out there. That's when you can even find a bottle. And if you do, give your old pal Pete a heads up on the location, will you?
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  • Cruzan 151 Rum

    Gold Rum — US Virgin Islands

    Reviewed March 31, 2017
    3.0
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    This was always a better choice than Bacardi 151 anyway, but now that's discontinued, so Cruzan 151 is the only game in town in a lot of liquor stores for an overproof rum, an essential ingredient in a lot of tiki drinks. While the Bacardi 151 smelled and tasted like rubbing alcohol, the Cruzan at least has a little depth, some sweetness and spice on the nose. But of course it's not a sipper, it's a mixer, and does its job well at a nice price.
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  • Brooklyn Gin

    Distilled Gin — New York, USA

    Reviewed February 8, 2017 (edited April 11, 2018)
    3.0
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    Wet and heavy with orange oils, and as such, makes for a poor martini, which is where I first tried it. Works far better in a citrusy Vesper and presumably in a G&T and on the rocks. Not bad, but not my type. I do like the heavy, brass-like cork that could probably K.O. a person from 20 feet away if your pitching arm was up to it.
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  • Bombay Sapphire Gin (47%)

    London Dry Gin — England

    Reviewed February 1, 2017
    4.0
    4.0 out of 5 stars
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