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 The Polished Palate International Rum Festival 2008 is over and the results of the 2008 3rd annual rum competition results are published. The competition took place in Ybor City, Tampa Florida at the Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn.
A total of 148 sugar-cane based spirits were judged at this event including various Temptryst rums from Au Natural Spirits which won many awards in many different categories. You should definitely check out these rums when they become available on the market. Congratulations on your success Mr. Watson! Temptryst gold winners:
Temptryst Lemon Wood Rum
Temptryst Reserve Rum
Temptryst Sugar Cane Matured Rum
Temptryst Applewood Aged Rum
Temptryst Hickory Aged Rum Click read more to check out the rest of the results of the Polished Palate 2008 3rd annual rum competition. |
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 Ardbeg presents a truly innovative and luxurious creation of single cask bottlings – Ardbeg ‘Double Barrel’. Inspired by the tradition of a shooting party, Ardbeg have created a ‘Double Barrel’ guncase, crafted by a traditional guncase maker. Only 250 of these exquisite cases exist anywhere in the world - The ultimate in luxury for the ultimate Islay Malt. It can be yours for a mere £7,500 - £10,000 at the Ardbeg online shop or Whisky Exchange. A true collectors item. Click read more to see what the Ardbeg Double Barrel case contains!
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 Miami, FL - Introducing Camacho Cigar’s Camacho Corojo 10th Anniversary cigar selection - a smooth, creamy blend created by Christian Eiroa as a follow-up to his highly-rated Camacho Triple Maduro cigars selection. This box-pressed anniversary cigar commemorates the Eiroa Family’s 10 years of growing the world’s only Authentic Corojo Seed tobacco. Due for release in March 2008, these special, medium to full-bodied cigars blended with an all Honduran-grown Corojo-seed filler, binder and wrapper recipe, are in the process of receiving some extra aging.
The Camacho Corojo 10th Anniversary is presented in 21 count boxes and will be available in the following four sizes: 50 x 4.5, Torpedo, 11/18, and 60 x 6.
Source: Camacho Cigars. I would recommend reading a review of Camacho 10th Anniversary cigar at Cigar Jack's Cigar Reviews. They also have an ongoing contest where all the participants have a chance of winning Camacho 10th Anniversary cigars! Talk about Camacho at the forums. |
 During the early part of the 20th Century, in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, the United States Alcohol Company owned a distillery that featured a large steel molasses storage tank. 52 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter, the tank was filled to capacity with 2.3 million gallons of molasses when at 12.30pm on 15 January, 1919, it burst open with a tremendous roar.
The Path of Destruction
When the tank exploded, chunks of metal were sent flying in all directions. One large piece smashed through a support for an elevated railroad. Luckily, an alert train driver managed to halt his train moments before it reached the broken tracks. As the tank was ripped apart, a huge wall of molasses came pouring out. The wall was approximately 15 to 20 feet high and reached speeds of up to 35 miles per hour in the area around the tank. This large mass of sticky goo was soon pouring into the streets of Boston destroying everything in its path. The wave knocked a firehouse off its foundation and destroyed another municipal building. At least a dozen city workers were trapped in the second building. Cellars in people's homes were filled up with molasses, while anybody who stood in its destructive path was sucked in to the seething mess. A horse-drawn wagon was picked up by the wave and slammed into a fence. Both the horses and the people became stuck. Trolley cars were picked up and smashed. People were crushed within their houses and others became stuck in the molasses. A few intrepid souls tried to swim in the sticky goo but without success. Some of the stuff plunged into the Boston Harbour taking wreckage with it. By the end of the day, many buildings and roads were covered with molasses. |
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By David Savona.
 The Dominican Republic, the world's largest producer of premium cigars, is throwing a cigar festival, and consumers are welcome to attend.
The 2008 Procigar Festival takes place March 5 through 7 in Santiago, the heart of the Dominican Republic's cigar production. It's the first of what's hoped to be an annual cigar show that will include tours of cigar factories and tobacco fields, luncheons and dinners with some of the country's leading cigar producers, and seminars on the world of cigars, tobacco growing, and spirits and cigar pairings. There's also a collection of special-edition cigars made for the event, and many more smokes.
The trip costs $595, not including airfare or lodging. The participating cigar companies are La Aurora, maker of the popular Preferidos and Aurora 100 Años cigars; General Cigar Co., one of the world's largest premium cigar producers and the company behind Macanudo and La Gloria Cubana; Tabadom Holding, which is affiliated with Davidoff and Avo cigars; Matasa, producer of Fonseca and Cubita; and Tabacalera de Garcia Ltd., the producer of Romeo y Julieta and Montecristo, among many other premium brands.
Those who want to add a little more R&R to the trip can upgrade and spend the weekend in La Romana, home of Tabacalera de Garcia, and play golf in the Procigar Golf Tournament at Casa de Campo, a world-class golf resort that overlooks the Caribbean.
For more information and to order tickets, go to www.procigar.org
Source: Cigar Aficionado. |
These whiskeys can be enjoyed for years. You can open it up, have some, close the bottle and enjoy it again at your leisure. It's not going to spoil.
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rare spirits went for record high prices at Christie's New York auction house on Saturday with one bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch selling for $54,000. It became the most expensive bottle of Scotch whiskey ever sold by the auction house, said Christie's, which has been holding similar sales in Europe for a decade.
Bought by a private New York investor, the Macallan was bottled in 1986 after spending 60 years in a wooden barrel. It had originally been expected to sell from between $20,000 and $30,000.
Richard Brierley, head of wine and spirits sales for Christie's America, was asked at an earlier press briefing if anyone would actually drink such a Scotch.
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 Renegade Rum, that was the title of the mail from Bruichladdich I received yesterday. Rum? I thought Bruichladdich was a whisky distillery? What do they have to do with rum? Most people will associate Islay with the famous Islay Single Malt Whiskies, not rum. But it certainly made me curious, even though I don't drink rum:
Turns out this is a new venture by Murray McDavid , the independent bottler (a subsidiary of Bruichladdich). Three years ago they decided to explore rum and tracked down casks from a range of single distilleries. The result was the Renegade Rum Company , which offers a number of selected rums . While the rum is/ was distilled in Guyana, Jamaica and Panama it is bottled on Islay at the Bruichladdich distillery bottling facility, using island spring water to reduce it to 46%. They are limited editions, as some of the distilleries don't exist any more.
Source (Islay Blog) Talk about Renegade Rum in the forums. |
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