Your 7 Bottle bar; what’s in it?

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I have many more bottles than just 7… But if I had to limit my collection to 7 they would be:

  1. Tanqueray no10 gin
  2. Plantation Three Stars rum
  3. El Jimador tequila
  4. Neisson Blanc rhum
  5. Nouilly Prat Original Dry
  6. Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
  7. Campari Rosso
  8. Cointreau

(I need one more!)
(And of course everyone will now know my favourite cocktails)
(Of course I also need my regular stash, e.g. at least a good whiskey, cognac, grappa, and port…)

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42

These are some of my standbys

Fortaleza silver tequila
Stoli / haku vodka
Havana club middle color and light rum
Ron Zacapa 23 rum
Chartreuse green
Remy vsop
Mezcal - trying out a bunch

A few others for sweet drinks / dessert

Amaretto
Bailey’s
(Mix those together for a nutty irishman)
Kahlua

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43

When I host a party, I have these on hand:
Dark rum
Rye
Vodka
Gin
Scotch
Grand Marnier
Kahlua

In terms of what I use for cooking and baking:
Rum
White wine with a screw cap
Red wine with a screw cap
Pernod (does this go bad once opened?)
Port
Sherry
Vermouth

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44

Macallan 12 (at least)
Costco Vodka
Gin
Vermouth
Campari
Aperol
Kirkland Scotch (for, we’ll, you know)

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45

I have 10 bottles just in ryes and bourbons alone.

Old Forester 100 proof rye
Redemption rye 100 proof.
Peerless Bourbon
Barrell Dovetail
Old Bardstown
Old Bardstown Estate
Yellowstone Store Pick
Redemption Hi Rye Bourbon
Redemption store pick Bourbon
Redemption Rye

I gotta drink a lot more to really answer this question.

46

Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Tequila (Respoado), White Rum, Campari, Sweet Vermouth

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47

I was at a cafe in Naxos way back in the pre Covid days and struck up a conversation with the owner. He pulled an old, obviously used over and over, bottle of home made sour cherry liqueur off the back shelf and we had a couple small glasses as we chatted over the next hour or so.
I have never found its like again, and I have tried. There is a special place in heaven for the better versions of home made liqueurs.
He also shared a rolled “lamb” meat that he toasted in the oven for a few minutes, then served on home made bread. Some sort of Greek roulade? I think it was a nice young goat, but he said lamb, so lamb it is. Both were good but the sour cherry liqueur was heavenly.

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48

If on a desert island, here’s the 7 I’d take:

calvados
armagnac
henessy vsop
stoly
maker’s mark
tequila & contreau (can’t have one w/out the other, so only counts as one)
bailey’s

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49

Knob Creek
Evan Williams BIB
Milam and Green Port finished rye
Ardbeg Corryvreckan
Lagavulin
Pierre Ferrand Ambre
Tanqueray

And a few more

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