Tuesday, November 11, 2008

'Tis The Spirit of The Season For Customers, Clients & Co-workers

This year you're going to be the one who's giving out the best presents. No more namby-pamby gift cards or kitschy mugs for those you will bestow gifts on this year. You're going to give them the best bottle of Rum they'll ever taste and they'll thank you for years to come. You're going to give them Old New Orleans Rum.

Click here to read more about our award-winning Rums. And who says you have to send a bottle to your friends? We won't tell if you give the gift of good taste to yourself.

You can purchase Old New Orleans Rum at any Rouse's, or if you're not from around these parts, DrinkUpNY.com is our online distributor. We also offer gift certificates for our fabulous tours given at the Distillery on Frenchmen as well as Old New Orleans Rum merchandise in our tasting room. Eat, drink Old New Orleans Rum and be merry this holiday season!

Till the next round,
ONO

*Gift wrapping and shipping prices separate from discount.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Weapon of Choice for Flash Mob: Old New Orleans Amber Rum

Old New Orleans Rum; the blunt object needed when fighting ninjas... Alas, our new found friend, Todd Perley, strikes me as more of a lover than a fighter, or if nothing else...a lush we're grateful for. ;) Instead of bringing a weapon to Pirates vs Ninjas Flash Mob on Halloween night, Perley armed himself with a bottle of Amber Rum. As the St. Louis Cathedral bells rang out announcing that it was exactly 5 o' clock in the afternoon, ninjas and pirates ran with reckless abandon into Jackson Square while Perley threw his cork into the crowd and swigged from his bottle. After two minutes of jabs, a series of coordinated kicks and karate chops and, in Perley's case, some generous swigs, all ninjas and pirates lay dead, strewn across the Square...

Seconds later, an air horn rang into the ears of the lifeless bodies of ninjas and pirates bringing their souls floating inches from their body back into their fleshy cages. Ninja and pirates went their seperate ways, till their souls beckoned for a good fight next year.


Perley and his fellow buccaneer, Paul Oswell, a journalist from London, are pictured above. Chee Wee, the orange cat, in the upper left corner has yet to confirm that we could use her/him in this photo.

Though Perley will not admit this to his crew of pirates, he's not really a big rum fan. But has let us know that Old New Orleans Rum is an exception to the rule. He also enjoys our 10-year brew.

"[It's] so complex and multi-layered...it's reminiscent of a good single malt Scotch," Perley said in a recent exchange of emails (not many pirates have such a luxury as email so we're thankful for the compliment; a message in a bottle may have taken a little longer to receive.)

Check out the video, here! You can see Perley swigging away at 1:46 and Oswell is seen multiple times with the pink feather in his pink headwrap (yes, there is more than one pirate with a pink headwrap).

Till next round,
ONO