LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2019

RAISING YOUR BAR What’s behind every bottle of BACARDÍ aged rum, such as this special, rare bottling of BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez.

BACARDÍ AÑEJO CUATRO Ideal for: Iconic Cuban classic drinks

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Tasting notes: This blend of rums barrel-aged for at least 4 years have a golden hue and smooth vanilla, toasted oak, clove and honey avours. Signature serve: If you love Manhattans try… BACARDÍ Cuatro Presidente: In a mixing glass, mix 2 oz BACARDÍ Añejo Cuatro rum, 3/4 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso vermouth, 1/4 oz dry curaçao and two dashes Angostura bitters with ice; strain and serve in a coupe with an orange twist.

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BACARDÍ RESERVA OCHO Ideal for: A sunny spin on classic cocktails Tasting notes: A velvety texture and complex layers of warming butterscotch, nutmeg and dried apricot build in this blend of rums aged for at least 8 years in oak barrels. Signature serve: If you love Old Fashioneds try… BACARDÍ Ocho Old Fashioned: In an Old Fashioned glass, mix 2 oz BACARDÍ Reserva Ocho and 1/4 oz simple syrup with two dashes Angostura bitters over ice and stir; garnish with an orange twist.

1. BACARDÍ is a family company with more than 150 years of Maestros de Ron (rum masters) expertise. 2. This is a master blender’s reserve rum, perfect for sipping neat or on the rocks as you would any premium barrel-aged spirit. undisturbed oak aging, which also creates bright notes of banana, pear and tropical melon balanced by caramelized vanilla and oak avours. 5. Gran Reserva is the term BACARDÍ uses to denote a mature rum, long aged under the Caribbean sun. 6. BACARDÍ validates that no rum younger than 10 years old is in this bottle; in fact, the blend likely includes 11 and 12-year- old rums to achieve the desired, complex avour pro le. 3. BACARDÍ was founded in Cuba and is now made in Puerto Rico. 4. The dark golden hue comes from