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Yet another rum question
I've heard of a lot of scams here in the DR, but $1500 for a bottle of rum has got to be one of the best ones yet!
Yes, hunny. It's Latin: Caveat Emptor. It means "buyer beware." (Am I the only person who took 2 years of Latin in high school and another one in college? Seems like....) It was the name Rhett Butler suggested to Scarlett O'Hara for the name of her post-war store in Atlanta: Caveat Emporium. It was Ashley Wilkes (poor, miscast Leslie Howard) who had to tell her. She thought it sounded sort of grand.
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Duty free
The only place I EVEN bother with duty-free is in Israel, bc you can get this I-kid-you-not amazing kosher pinot noir that is US$20 in the US at Ben Gurion for the equivalent of US$12 there. Sometimes in France, perfume and wine. But in the DR, duty-free is total idiocy. You go to one of the distributors in Sosua Abajo and you get a deal that is beyond any airport deal.
The only place I EVEN bother with duty-free is in Israel, bc you can get this I-kid-you-not amazing kosher pinot noir that is US$20 in the US at Ben Gurion for the equivalent of US$12 there. Sometimes in France, perfume and wine. But in the DR, duty-free is total idiocy. You go to one of the distributors in Sosua Abajo and you get a deal that is beyond any airport deal.
Stick with Boone's Farm wine coolers mate, they are on sale @ Publix.
A good single malt can cost a few thousand smackers.
I am happy with a nice POM Blue with a San Pelligrino and I am on my way.
Learned the hard way.
Son came from college on summer vacation back in 2010.
Ask him if he would like to drink something with me. Took him to the liquor store.
He told me he only drinks single malt whiskeys and picked a bottle that cost $150.00 USD. Of course I bought it since I offered. He taught me how to drink whiskey. Until then, I only drank vodka..........................lol
Thanks for the replies. Neither seem to have generated much interest on the island. Last time I was in the DR, a couple fellows in the group bought their Extra Viejo at the A.I. for about $30USD a bottle. A couple guys bought theirs at the duty free for about $19USD a bottle. I had the taxi driver stop at some grocery store and I paid $9USD.
actually, i took 5 years of Latin. i had to be able to translate Caesar?s Gallic Wars, Romulus and Remus, etc. i remember next to nothing now, but it helps when i run into new words.
Always has been. Buy your coffee or rum at La Sirena and put it in your checked luggage and it will cost half of what the duty free shops charge. Duty free is for container loads. That is the only way you could come ahead.
Dominica or La Republica Dominicana? And I do purely love that it's a California family (Family, as in Friends of Ours, if you know what I mean) that facilitates.