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...ZACAPA: CENTENARIO 23 This Guatemalan delight is a blend of 6- to 23-year-old rums, which are distilled from the honey-like first press of the sugarcane. (Many other producers use molasses, the tarry end product of the sugarmaking process.) Take a sip and your taste buds will be swaddled in rich caramel, fig and tobacco notes. Visit ronesdeguatemala.com for more information. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...after dinner instead of the traditional brandy or single-malt scotch. "We all remember getting sick on mixed rum drinks in college," says Hamilton, 52, who imports and writes about exotic brands like Bielle Rhum Vieux (from the tiny island of Marie-Galante), Matusalem (Dominican Republic) and Ron Zacapa Centenario (Guatemala). "But when people taste an aged rum, when the tropical flavors mix with an oaky, smoky finish, it's like trying rum again for the first time...
...consumes 80% of Mexico's tequila shipments abroad. "A few people who regularly went to Mexico for these small specialty tequilas started importing them for sale," says Christopher Palmer, publisher of the online magazine Tequila Fancy. International customers were soon savoring formerly inaccessible brands like Centinela, Lapiz and Gran Centenario. A string of new multinational players in the market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order...
...South Africans had a virtual corner on the small-investor gold market, selling an estimated 1 million Krugerrands in the U.S. annually. But competition has been getting stronger. Last year the Canadian government began selling its 1-oz. Gold Maple Leaf, and this spring the Mexicans started promoting the Centenario. Beginning this month Americans will also be able to buy 1-oz. and ½oz. medallions made from Fort Knox gold. These will be medallions-and not gold coins-and thus cannot be used at the corner drugstore. They will be sold through post offices, with the cost being...
...Then, as I was getting into my dress clothes to attend one of the numerous receptions at the Club Centenario, a messenger showed up and gave me a small slip of paper with instructions to be at a corner of the Calle Estigarribia in the heart of downtown Asunción at 10 o'clock the next morning. There was no mention of whom I would meet there...