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David's Bottles

I will start this quarter with the Americas and then move on to Europe. Our first flagon bottle is part
of a set of 5 from Dry Country Distillery of Oregon. This one contains 50ml of Vodka at 40%. The
others are Apple Pie, Black Rope Anise, Hot Spiced Rum and Key Lime Pie. The next 6 are all
from Cuba in the 1930’s. The first 3 were sold only in Cuba but the second three were US imports.

On the left we have some
much more modern
Cuban bottles. The
Legendario Rum ‘Elixir of
Cuba’ is a 40ml bottle at
34%. The Mulata set was
sold 2-3 years ago. The
first bottle is not a Rum,
but an Aguardiente which
some people consider
light rum, but really isn't.
Others think Cachaca is
Rum, but it isn't either.

Our final Cuba bottle is at the start of the next
four. Havana Club is from the mid 1930's. The
next one is from when it switched to Puerto Rico
(I guess ahead of Castro because the bottle is
1950's), the last two are fairly current. Now you
mostly find plastic. Rumor among liquor people
is that Havana Club will soon be imported again
into the U.S. but with a new name, Havanista, or
something like that.

The last bottle from the Americas is another new
one I brought back from Mexico. It's supposedly

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