Ron Zacapa Solera 23An awesome rum winner of a Platinum medal and ranked in First Place by the prestigious Beverage Testing Institute in Chicago, with a whopping 97 points. Interestingly, now that industry giants Diageo are distributing Zacapa, the '23 years old' age statement has suddenly been dropped and replaced with a somewhat more plausible claim the rums used are aged between 6 and 23 years old and are blended together in a solera.

After biking to 77 19th Street in Brooklyn

is the second oldest barrel of the distillery

Glenallachie

There was a time when farmers distilled their own "home-made” whisky and in order to avoid paying taxes to the revenue man hid the whisky in barrels marked "Sheep Dip”

brown sugar and molasses that gives way to notes of creamy vanilla and mocha on the palate

honeyed oak

Isle of Arran Distillers out of Scotland has revealed plans for a trilogy of new limited edition Scotches known as The Smuggers’ Series

with no added colour

green anise

Peat iodine

One other note: Sunshine Reserve’s beautiful packaging has been made specially so that when you finish the bottle

sweet malt and brine