spirits reviews Archive

Is the Best Pisco From Peru or Chile?

Where can you find the best Pisco: in Chile or Peru? The answer you get will depend on which country you are in, but we’ll take a stab at it after tasting lots of both. When I went on a luxury yacht cruise on the Scenic Eclipse, we left one country that produces Pisco and [&hellip

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Getting to Know Raicilla From Mexico

Bartenders and spirits connoisseurs are always looking for “the new new thing,” talking about what’s hot or up and coming in what’s getting on the radar of mixologists and sippers. You never really know what’s hot (and what’s lasting) until the lagging sales numbers come in, but I’m guessing raicilla might be the next one [&hellip

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Tequila Centenario Reposado: a Review of the Top Seller in Mexico

Can the best-selling spirit in a category really be something tasty? Or is it just swill wrapped up in an expensive marketing package? It depends on whether we’re talking about an export market or the origination market. The best-selling tequila in Mexico probably deserves a B- on the grading scale: Tequila Centenario Reposado. With tequila, [&hellip

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Tres Generaciones Tequila in a Revamped Bottle

My memories of Tres Generaciones Tequila go back a long way. It was one of the first distilleries I ever toured, back on my first visit to the town of Tequila around when we were first launching Luxury Latin America. The previous bottle design looked older than my memories though, so apparently the parent company [&hellip

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Ron Viejo de Caldas 8 Aged Rum From Colombia

The Colombians drink a lot of rum, but what they produce doesn’t have a lot of recognition in the international market. I’m in the country right now and wanted to try something good, so I asked around a lot and kept getting the same answer from people who drink the spirit neat: Ron Viejo de [&hellip

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Don Q Gran Reserva Anejo Rum Review

Puerto Rico has a long rum heritage that has led to international fame, but if you want to sip instead of mix, tip your glass with some Don Q Gran Reserva Añejo XO aged rum. We normally don’t cover the Caribbean islands here on Luxury Latin America from a travel standpoint, even if they do [&hellip

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