Wednesday, August 20, 2008

South


Gin
Purchase Price: $16
Place of Purchase: Warehouse - New York, NY
Rating: 7.9


This is sold to the general public in a towering bottle that's going to loom over its companions in your liquor cabinet like Jan Koller over everyone else on the pitch. And that's about it. New Zealand is supposedly an exotic place that has hobbits, wizards and other fantastic creatures, but they seem to have forgotten to infuse this gin with any of that 'ol Kiwi magic. It's serviceable, and that bottle is always going to come in handy in a liquor bottle sword fight, but a little bit of packaging gimmickry does not a world-beater make. Especially when it is priced considerably higher than the bargain basement introductory price I paid for this. I think it's going for $30+ in most places.

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