This week we found an off-the-beaten-path liquor store with a few treasures we've been looking for. The first is Pisco Aba, a pisco made from muscat grapes that Dale DeGroff was involved with when they were trying to make a splash in the US. I don't know much else about the history of the product except that it's not distributed in the US anymore.

Even more exciting was the find of three small bottles of Tanqueray Malacca, the long out-of-production gin that supposedly followed Tanqueray's original recipe. Unfortunately the folks at Tanqueray released this product about a decade before its time. The renaissance gin was poorly received and production was halted. Fast forward to the present and Malacca is like a holy grail for dusty bottle seekers.