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It's been a good year for rum drinkers. Store shelves are now brimming with tasty bottles of the liquor, and bar menus across the country are full of cocktails featuring it. Give your favorite drinker a taste of the Caribbean this holiday season with one of these spirits recommended by Allan Katz, general manager of Los Angeles' renowned Caña Rum Bar, and Wayne Curtis, author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails.

Appleton Estate 21-Year-Old ($120)
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Jamaica traditionally produces big rums, and this one manages to be both giant and gentle. It's a blend of Appleton rums aged at least 21 years. "The cocoa and vanilla notes are well-tempered with a touch of oak," Curtis says.
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It's been a good year for rum drinkers. Store shelves are now brimming with tasty bottles of the liquor, and bar menus across the country are full of cocktails featuring it. Give your favorite drinker...
It's been a good year for rum drinkers. Store shelves are now brimming with tasty bottles of the liquor, and bar menus across the country are full of cocktails featuring it. Give your favorite drinker...
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turfkiller
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10:17 AM on 12/16/2010
Ah... to be marooned on a desert island with an infinite supply of rum.
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Lahonda
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02:01 AM on 12/15/2010
Mount Gay Extra Old = mother's milk.
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12:46 PM on 12/14/2010
WTF kind of list is this, that doesn't have Barbancourt Estate Especial (aged 15 years) on it? pbbbbbbt!
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10:05 PM on 12/16/2010
Love all the Barbancourts . Very overlooked
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03:57 PM on 12/21/2010
My thought exactly. Same with all the folks I have bought the 15 year old for.
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Badges we don't need no stinking badges
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11:33 PM on 12/13/2010
Mount Gay has always been my favorite brand.
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08:33 PM on 12/13/2010
I'll take an 18 year old Flor de Cana.
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