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Articles and recipes that include other spirits. Including gin, rum, cognac, brandy and liqueur.

KWV 12 year old Brandy

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Something different today.  A potstill KWV brandy, the KWV 12 year old brandy. A few Saturdays ago, it was cold. The coldest night in 2022, and we turned on the fireplace. I needed something to warm me up from the inside, and John was not in the mood for whisky.

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Rhumerie de Chamarel

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Situated on the lush green hills on the South Western side of Mauritius is the Rhumerie de Chamarel. Hills filled with sugar cane as far as you can see, clumps of pineapples and coconut trees and colourful hibiscus dot the landscape. Spots of yellow and purple flowers transform the dense green sugar cane fields into a patchwork of colour.

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