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Category: Spirits

Dynasty Spirits Tower Vodka 750mL

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Now as part of our review process we include the website. This is mostly so that if you want to hear more, or see other things said spirit company makes you can easily do so. Typically finding this is well – easy. Occasionally it’s on the bottle, but often a quick good search will work despite sites to buy stuff cluttering it up. In trying to find this though what we found was Dynasty Spirits and most often them being in a few legal jumbo around copycats – which given us thinking this was a knockoff Tito’s pretty much nailed the screw to the board. Given that fact was not a great start considering we at best consider Tito’s to be – average.

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Navy Bay Dark Jamaican Rum 750mL

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Because this is 2021 we’ve had to order spirits and beers and such online or via delivery apps. This was not our first choice of rum, but was selected as an alternate. We approved it because – well we hadn’t reviewed it anyway, and that’s really the only modus operandi we have. This would later be known as the ‘turning point’ the decision that we truly, and honestly wish we could go back and reverse. Because FUCK this rum.

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Bourge Noble Vodka 750mL

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We now come to a vodka that tries so hard to seem fancy and yet is a fucken nightmare. This reeks of something made by the French, meant to seem like it’s location and pedigree make it worth so much more, and yet absolutely not. Let us be the first to lay it out plain, this is a sort of shit vodka, at a not good price, that is ultimately skippable.

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Raffles Gin 750mL

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It wasn’t initially clear that this gin had relation to Sipsmith, but it seems much like that gin – this is really a Gin & Tonic gin that is mildly okay elsewhere. In reality while it’s really nice to have unique and diverse gins – sometimes you just want something to throw into tonic and be done with it. The benefit is that while Sipsmith is harder and much more expensive to get stateside, this does not have the issue (fully).

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Cincoro Blanco Tequila 750mL

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There are many things that are considered ‘top-shelf’ and are placed there accordingly. This given it’s height (just under 18 inches) sort of demands to be top-shelf, like a “just try to figure out how I don’t go into overhead empty space”. That being said it sort of actually deserves to be there, because giant curved angle modern art bottle aside – the contents within are truly top-shelf as well.

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Rhum Barbancourt 4 Yr. Rum 750mL

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Part of our review process is that we typically try the spirit first before we sit down for a proper review, and then we follow that up closer to the time of writing beyond the notes with a follow up tasting. This is mostly so we don’t end up with a bias of a single day, and let’s us adjust scores if necessary. This is a rum that’s benefited from that time, because at first blush it’s really not great – but give it some time and some cuba libres for a couple nights – and we’re sold.

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The Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750mL

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Okay seriously, we’ll have an actual review of Glenlevit 12 Yr soon. We always seem to forget it’s never been reviewed on this site until we do something like this – an offshoot – and then try to compare it scorewise to the standard outing. What we have here is some scotch, but finishes it’s aging instead in a rum cask. The effect is certainly something that has more rum elements, but does that make it better?

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