Favorite Alcohol

What is your favorite alcohols, guys and gals? I always like to find new things to try at the home and at the club, so gimme your list. Note, I'm primarily a rum man, but I dabble in vodka and whiskey, but am fairly green with the others. I hate beers, but don't hesitate to try and change my mind.


Rum:

Pyrat Grand Reserve (The best dark rum I've ever come across. A bit harsh straight when drank by the unfamilar, but can be mixed with most rum-friendly beverages for a suberb drink. Makes the best Rum and Coke I've ever had. Classic, but easy to find only in the Carribean!)


Flora De Cana - 4 Year (A Nicaraguan dark rum that an Ex-girlfriend put me on. A personal favorite. Suberb Mojito base if that's your thing, but is great straight. Goes down smooth and burns in your chest like a spirit should. If you can get your hands on it here (about $30 for 1L), buy it in a heartbeat.

Cruzan Single Barrel (Sleeper hit with me. Reasonably priced. Is real creamy, but still has a very strong flavor. Get it if you can.)

Neisson Rum (One of the few rums made from the juice of sugar cane—as opposed to molasses—which gives it a more polished, refined character. Price y (I bought it for a friend, and it was like $60), but still pretty nice.


Vodka:

This is easy...

Grey Goose (Call me a sucker for good marketing, but I truely believe that this vodka is the best around. Very smooth and goes down like water; I literally forget I'm drinking a spirit when I'm drinking this on the rocks. Not as harsh as many expect vodkas to be. Is very expensive ($60 for a full handle, even more expensive at the club), but worth it every once in a while)

Chopin (Polish and distilled from potatoes (as opposed to the much more widely embraced Grain distilled). I joke that it is Goose's arch-nemesis (yeah, I nerd out like that). This one has it all; the smoothest and probably best tasting vodka around. I prefer the Goose, but this is just as expensive in most cases, so I get it just as much when I want something as polished as this).



So, gimme y'alls preferences. Wine is also welcome, something I like, but know very little about.