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Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: Jerry_R] #295356
02/08/2023 01:07 PM
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I've had the 18 Glenlevit. Prefer the 18 Macallan. For a blend the 21 Royal Salute is heaven.

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Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #295360
02/08/2023 02:25 PM
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Gulmohar's?

Also, Jerry, what are the unavailable in US scotches you mentioned? Are they worth trying?

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: bluejacket] #295362
02/08/2023 02:36 PM
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"Gulmohar's?"
It's on Front St. Has a vast selection of top shelf liquor but I find his prices much higher than others along Front St for the same item.

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: SXMScubaman] #295381
02/08/2023 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by SXMScubaman
I've had the 18 Glenlevit. Prefer the 18 Macallan. For a blend the 21 Royal Salute is heaven.


Llast spring, I was gifted a bottle of the 21 Royal Blue Salute. Almost done with it and it’s lovely. And I agree the Macallan 18 is also great. We must have similar palates!

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #295384
02/08/2023 11:31 PM
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Sounds like we do. In that case try out the 18yr Chevas Royal. Very nice blend for the price. So many great scotches out there. Not enough time. 😉

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: bluejacket] #295497
02/10/2023 11:31 PM
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Aberlour 10yr for one. It's their flagship product but is no longer available in N. America that I know of. Gulmohar's used to get a few bottles once in a while and I got my last one there. One of the scotch guides has it at a 95 out of a 100 rating. And it's fairly inexpensive or used to be. I can only find the 15 & 18 yr old and it is $$. I'm hoping he has the JW Island Green as it is especially blended for the tourist market. I would really like to give it a try w/out breaking my bank. A number of distillers do limited editions that are only available in the Caribbean.

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #295499
02/11/2023 01:43 AM
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I've had the 10yr Aberlour before. Pretty nice but prefer others. So many out there in a variety of tastes. Something for everyone.

Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #296517
02/25/2023 11:32 PM
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Holy crap, still sitting on the jet, besides myself.

I scoured the island all week and no one had JW Island Green.

So we were flying SXM-JFK direct today BUT our crew timed out at SXM. So they finally planned to instead fly to MIA and then get us to JFK

This meant deplane in MIA, thru GE, collect checked bags, then recheck bags, and back to our plane with a new crew. As I get to the gate, I pass duty free by gate D34.

You already know where this is going.

In the DF beside gate D34 was a 4ft wide 10ft tall wall stocked with Johnny Walker Island Green.

And I could not buy it…..

I did take the advice here and found an Abelour [b][/b]10. Also. A JW Blue and JW Blue Dundas and a few bottles of French wines though.

So for anyone flying intl from MIA, therein you’ll find JW Island Green

I’ll get to a proper TR soon. Our diverted flight leaves soon…

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Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #296531
02/26/2023 10:00 AM
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captain--sounds like a very long day. Travel is such sweet sorrow.


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Re: Bringing wine and champagne home/luggage/ship? [Re: the captain] #297362
03/11/2023 09:30 PM
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So while I didn’t get it in SXM and it’s been seen in MIA and ORD, I found it.

And quite lovely 😊 and worth the wait.

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