'Spirits' (AKA 'hard liquor') is the term for all distilled alcohol - in fact, the name 'spirit' came from alchemists who believed the vapor of distillation was a 'spirit' of the original material. Technically 'spirits' and 'liqueurs' are different - spirits have no added sugar, while liqueurs do - but they tend to be lumped together. Virtually all known spirits were used as health tonics or elixirs at some point in history, but transmuted into good fun drinks over time. Many countries have their 'national' drink - gin, whisky, schnapps, grappa, ouzo, soju, vodka, rakia/rakija...there's quite a list. Experiments began with sugars and flavours - resulting in limoncello, cynar, Benedictine...that's an even longer list.
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Distilled in Barbados, this expression from Mount Gay was named for the 'double phenomenon' of a total solar eclipse and the passage of Halley's comet in 1910.
$68.95
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Made in extremely limited numbers, this blend of rums is flavored with peppers, calumet 'tobacco' (a tobacco substitute smoked by Native Americans), and traditional black gunpowder before being hand-bottled with a final flavoring ingredient that gives the appearance of gunpowder grains lying at the bottom of the bottle. Bottled in the nearest bottle to hand at the time, hand wrapped and labelled, so appearance may vary from photograph...
$111.95
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Sweet, but beautifully balanced by the tart aromatic elderflower flavours. A must for your liqueur collection.
$76.95
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Punt e Mes is an Italian vermouth. It is dark brown in color and has a bitter flavor. Punt e Mes literally means "point and a half" in Piedmontese.
$39.95
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Aperol aromatic aperitif has a unique flavour and colour achieved through a subtle blend of bitter orange, gentian, rhubarb and an array of herbs and roots - an unchanged secret recipe since 1919.
$32.95
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Johnnie Walker Black Label 12 year old is a Premium blend of around 40 whiskies, very well put together with a high proportion of malt, as well as grain whisky. It is quite rich and full in flavour, with notes of wood smoke and dry spice, and hints of barley and a creamy toffee finish.
$63.95
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Cynar is an Italian bitter liqueur (Amaro) made from 13 herbs and plants. Predominant amongst these is the artichoke (Cynara scolymus), from which the drink derives its name. Cynar is dark brown in color and has a bittersweet flavour.
$37.95
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Believed to be the world’s first commercial batch of Manuka smoked whisky, this single malt is made from barley grown in the South Island and kilned using New Zealand Manuka wood.
$126.95
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A liqueur obtained by infusion from the apricot pulp. The originai recipe goes back to 1935 when the city of Rome organized an exhibition including a competition for creating a new ltalian liqueur. Luxardo Apricot won the first price being awarded the title "Liquore della Lupa" (the liqueur of the Roman she-wolf), now its trademark.
$40.95
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Bols Cacao Brown is a dark liqueur packed with the rich flavour of bitter, dark chocolate and hints of orange and vanilla.
$42.95
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Harvested when the first frosts arrive, wild sloe berries from blackthorn bushes which grow on limestone plateaus are left entirely to macerate in gin previously distilled at Maison Gabriel Boudier.
$64.95
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This remarkably developed and complex medium-aged rum has a distinctive delicate taste and is aged for a minimum of 5 years in bourbon oak barrels.
$66.95
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