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Summer Rum, and Hot Cocktails!
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Summer Rum, and Hot Cocktails!
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Tuesday June 28, 2005
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Speaker: Anistatia Miller: Editor
Jared Brown: Author
We tasted 4 delightful summer rums from Bacardi and learned how to mix and then enjoyed our 4 hot cocktails. No votes were taken. The tasting notes were provided by Vivian Tramontana for the rums, Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown for the cocktails.
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| Flight I: Rums |
Full Retail
Full Bottle
Price $ |
Bacardi Superior
Clear color, aged 1 year, filtered, citrus, vanilla nose, crisp, simple, excellent mixer. |
$15.00 |
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Bacardi Gold
Golden color, aged 2 years, triple filtered, charcoal filtering, vanilla, and caramel nose, walnut, some wood notes, balanced. |
$12.99 |
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Bacardi Select
Dark amber color, aged 4 years in bourbon barrels, toffee, vanilla nose, buttery finish, moderately full-bodied. |
$16.00 |
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Bacardi 8
Dark copper color not as dark as Bacardi Select. Aged 8 years, vanilla, toffee, leather, walnuts, and maple nose. Moderately full bodied, smooth, balanced.
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$27.99 |
| Flight II: Cocktails |
Full Retail
Half Bottle
Price $ |
Mojito
(Bacardi Superior Rum, mint, sugar, lime slices, ice, seltzer) Clear color, flecked with deep green mint and lime. Predominant lime oil and mint nose, slight sparkle, moderate sweetness, notes of vanilla, cane and molasses, mint and lime juice, clean finish. |
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Daiquiri
(Bacardi Gold Rum, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, ice)Pale green color. Vanilla, cream and lime nose. Molasses, vanilla, green apple, citrus bite, very warming mouthfeel. Astringent finish. |
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Pina Colada on the Rocks
(Bacardi Select Rum, Coco Lopez, pineapple juice)Dense, creamy bronze color. Coconut and rum nose (pineapple is only present in the nose if used on the rim as a garnish). Big vanilla and caramel underlying the coconut and pineapple. Mildly warming. Creamy, fatty mouthfeel. |
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Mai Tai
(Bacardi 8 Rum, Cointreau, Amaretto di Saronno, lime juice, mint) Distinct mint nose from garnish, with faint peach and oak. Elegant, semi-sweet Cognac suffused with bitter orange and dry almond. Long complex finish.
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