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Advent minis

Each year there seems to be more and more Advent Calendars containing booze, many of them
with miniature bottles. When I decided to write this article it was just after Christmas, so too late to
order any, but note to self, next year…..
I had bookmarked an article earlier in the year about an Advent Calendar from 67 Pall Mall, an
exclusive London wine club (with a branch in Singapore). The calendar is in the shape of their
London building and each numbered 75ml bottle has a QR code that links to a full description of the
wine in it. That image is on the cover. Good luck with getting one of these calendars though!

As I sat down to write this I did not expect to find a New Zealand mini
bottle advent calendar, but I did. The only Reefton Distilling Co. mini I
knew of we have featured before, the 50ml Little biddy Gin. There are 24
bottles in the calendar and I will let the web site describe them:

Contains 24 x 50ml bottles consisting of international award-winning Little
Biddy Gins – Classic, Pink, Gold Label and Black Label, Little Biddy Gin –
Christmas, our new limited edition Little Biddy Gin – Snow, Wild Rain
Vodka and Reefton Distilling Co. Blueberry & Tayberry Liqueurs.

Unfortunately there are no pictures but, bugger, how do I now get my
hands on these other NZ bottles?

Supermarket Aldi in the UK teamed up with
Haysmith’s gins and they gave us a picture.
Presumably you get four of each.

Danish indie rum bottler 1423 produced the
2021 edition of its 24 Days of Rum Calendar.
Filled with 24 different 20ml miniature bottles of
rum, from 24 different countries. The full list

should be mouth watering for rum collectors
everywhere: English Harbour 5 Year Old, Clément
VSOP, Plantation XO Barbados 20th Anniversary,
Pusser's Blue Label, Spirits of Old Man Rum Project
Three - Dark Expression, Savanna 5 Year Old,
Admiral Rodney Rum - HMS Royal Oak, El Pasador
de Oro XO, Ron Abuelo XII Two Oaks, Ron La
Progresiva 13, Plantation Isle of Fiji, Cihuatán Xaman
XO, Inner Circle Green Navy Strength, Ron Esclavo
Gran Reserva Overproof, Arcane Extraroma, Worthy
Park 109, Wild Tiger Rare Blend, Naga Pearl of
Jakarta, Samai Gold Rum, William Hinton 5 Year Old,
Rum Nation Peruano 8 Year Old, Cane Island

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