In my last entry, I made the erroneous claim that Hi Time Wines does not ship to people outside of California. Mea culpa, I was operating without having done sufficient research, and basing my claim on word-of-mouth from a few non-Californians that had lamented that Hi Time didn’t ship out of state. Forrest, from Hi [...]
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I’ve noticed over the past few months, as the number of readers of my blog have gone up, so have the number of emails and comments. I really enjoy this. I like hearing that someone enjoyed my review or is going to try a cocktail recipe I wrote about or that they agree that such [...]
My how the months do fly by. It seems like I can’t go a week without it being a month later these days. It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing my rum entry for Mixology Monday…but maybe that’s just because I write about rum all the time. Nah, that can’t be it.This [...]
Just a short, quick note today.I’ll be in Las Vegas for the weekend of the 21st of June for a party at a friend’s house. I like parties. I like hanging out with bunches of people, chattering, dancing, and – of course – having a cocktail or two.For this particular party (a birthday party of [...]
A few years ago, I was a rum neophyte. I was a babe in the rummy wilderness, knowing only that I had tasted good rum, and I wanted to taste more. My collection? What collection? I probably had about 3 or 4 bottles of rum…mostly consisting of 2 or 3 bottles from St. Lucia and [...]
A few weeks ago, your faithful narrator was contacted by representatives of Depaz about his interest in some samples, with the possibility of a review of these alleged samples obviously the goal of such provisions. I received those samples, I sampled the…um…samples, and I even used them in my most recent Mixology Monday entry.In that [...]
It’s that time again. Time to hunker down and join the rest of the cocktail blogosphere in celebrating our monthly libation worship. This month’s MxMo (graciously hosted by Blair over at TraderTiki.com) is one I couldn’t miss. No really, how bad would I look if I – the host of RUMDOOD.com – did not participate [...]