Ron Viejo de Caldas

toneloc24 says on Dec 1, 2005, 11:07:

You're joking, right?

"PBH is dead!!!!"

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paisa29 says on Dec 1, 2005, 11:36:

I do Know

"Fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality" Conrad Hilton

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lozza says on Dec 1, 2005, 11:55:

Are all the shops closed where you are!?!?!?

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rf says on Dec 2, 2005, 07:14:

duh you could start at your corner shop...maybe a liquor store?

sorry i cant help its just so hard to find that stuff in colombia in general.. you might have to go to an import shop in medellin like san andresito

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dwmte says on Dec 12, 2005, 04:59:

my question is... why on earth would you seek out ron de caldas when you can drink ron medellin? duh

dw

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Tinto (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Dec 12, 2005, 05:54:

Ron de Caldas won some kind of international tasting award or best of class or something like that in September. I think it was at a food and wine show in Europe. Their packaging now has a little blue ribbon on it. I guess it was prestigous because they beat a lot of the famous rums from the Caribbean islands.

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dwmte says on Dec 12, 2005, 06:04:

tinto... so? maybe ron medellin didn't bother to enter...

dw

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dwmte says on Dec 12, 2005, 06:12:

common, tinto... are you saying you haven't drank either? that doesn't constitute a stake in the game.

dw

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dwmte says on Dec 12, 2005, 06:26:

funny story... back about 93 or 94, i was flying back to the states to visit my business partner in tucson, ariz. i was also bringing him a lifetime stash of ron medellin and aguardiente also from medellin. i bought twelve caraffes (sp) and had them in a large cardboard box and well packed.

when i arrived at the airport in bogota from medellin in transit back to the states, i saw my box coming down the conveyor...then one of the workers walked up and tried to pull it off the side of the conveyor and 'whoops!' the box goes crashing to the ground. one bottle survived. of course avianca took no responsibility for the loss. just another day in suck city. and (then) about a $120.00 loss.

dw

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MedellinViking says on Dec 13, 2005, 08:05:

Hey DW, Isn't Ron Medellin another name for corriente? Taste is such a personal thing! I was drinking Ron Medellin for about 2 years with my paisa friends, you know the ones, the common person that drinks the same licor and eats the same bandeja every day. Now occasionally I had to drink a bit of Bacardi to switch thinsgs up one day I had the chance to try Ron Viejo de Caldas and I was surprised. I buy ny licor at the Micro Rancho store in Envigado, cr 38 & Cll 37 sur. They also have great prices on import tequila! RIP Ron Medellin.....

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dwmte says on Dec 13, 2005, 15:19:

yo, viking... i probably should confess that you're right. HOWEVER, think of it this way. in mexico, a tortilla is pretty much a tortilla. by the same token, the richest and the poorest eat the same tortilla. in antioquia (medellin and it's surrounds) all, and i do mean all, drink ron medellin without one thought of bacardi's best or worse...nor for that matter, ron de caldas. si o no?

i by my drink--aguardiente and ron medellin--in the market in gualanday, in llano grande. i presume you know where llano grande is. we have a house in envigado (las flores) but i prefer living up country in finca land. i spent too many years and way to much money in medellin (poblado). now, it's the back porch and the finca. if we move back, i'll consider sabaneta to please my wife (the family lives in envigado (manga azul) and sabaneta is the closest in pueblo to medellin. next would probably be el retiro. the area beyond caldas, primavera and amaga, are dreary/dull and i couldn't live there. too, to the north, the same applies north of bello all the way to barbosa. boooooorrrring.

well, nice to chat,

douglas

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