I owned (briefly) one of the few $1200 bottles of rum in America. It turns out that Old George was not only a patriot, but a distiller and a purveyor of the demons rum and whiskey. Anyway, the Smthsonian, in a fundraiser for maintainence for Mt. Vernon, let a few liquor companies use the General's distilling tools to make some high end hootch to be auctioned off. A buddy worked for Cruzan rum, who used 5 year old single barrel anejo. He bid on two cases of his own stuff and won, and I got a bottle. He had no idea it would go for that much, and got in a bit of trouble with his boss trying to expense it (24 bottles times $1200 per bottle?
?
). Still, it was wonderful. It was like fine cognac and I felt the urge to wear a tricorn hat while drinking it.
If George was giving this stuff out on election day? Its no wonder he won two terms.
FQ13 who feels more patriotic for having dunk the stuff.