Christmas Special Offers from Waitrose

[Berbician]

Waitrose has reduced the prices of the following rums:

Cockspur 5 star from £14.00 to £12.00,
Havana Club 7 year old from £22.00 to £18.50,
Kracken Spiced from £23.00 to £19.50 and
Santa Teresa Gran Reserva from £19.50 to £16.00.

These offers run till 30th December 2014.

[Berbician]

Sorry, this should be in the UK section above.

[thefatrumpirate]

Originally Posted by Berbician

Sorry, this should be in the UK section above.

Berbican

Have you tried the Santa Teresa? We don't have much in the way of Waitroses up here (the odd smaller one).

[Berbician]

No, not yet. I tend to only buy the Cockspur 5 star at Waitrose, now that they no longer stock Barbancourt or El Dorado.

[thefatrumpirate]

Originally Posted by Berbician

No, not yet. I tend to only buy the Cockspur 5 star at Waitrose, now that they no longer stock Barbancourt or El Dorado.

Cockspur is always a fine choice. Hugely under rated.

Aldi have El Dorado 8 at £19.99 bottle

and Sainsbury's are still stocking Chairman's Reserve at £20 a bottle (was briefly reduced to £18)

The supermarket stocks are slowly getting better!

[Berbician]

I completely agree with you about Cockspur 5 star.

I keep meaning to visit Aldi but never seem to get round to it - I'll make an extra effort now.

To be honest, I've gone off Chairman's Reserve - the regular one doesn't seem to taste of anything in particular, whereas the Chairman's Reserve Spiced is too sweet and orangey.

[thefatrumpirate]

Originally Posted by Berbician

I completely agree with you about Cockspur 5 star.

I keep meaning to visit Aldi but never seem to get round to it - I'll make an extra effort now.

To be honest, I've gone off Chairman's Reserve - the regular one doesn't seem to taste of anything in particular, whereas the Chairman's Reserve Spiced is too sweet and orangey.

I was disappointed when I revisited the Spiced. Too much cinnamon and orange. As far as Spiced Rum goes I don't think you can do much better than Foursquare's offering. Sailor Jerry is also quite a decent rum if you are wanting a more vanilla profile. It gets knocked quite a bit but at the heart of it is a half decent rum. Unlike The Kraken and Morgan's.

Aldi have the El Dorado 8 at the moment and a Gunn and Innis Spiced Rum Finish Beer (7.4% ABV). I have a couple of bottles but have yet to try.

I was hoping Aldi would have a half decent Bourbon but I think they struggled to sell the Jefferson's last year so they seem to have avoided Bourbon this year.