Alcohols By Volume (ABV)

I have never tried Tequila straight before, think I had it in a cocktail once but after this review I really want to try Riazul. I just have to figure out if I can get it up here in canada.

Ah, Canada may be a pain, can you ship alcohol over the border or is that a no no?

Honestly I have no idea and I am not sure how to check

Just did a little research it seems that anything more then 24% alcohol cannot be imported in (guessing that is what it means by mailing). Unfortunately since Riazul is 40% it is above this so if mailing is importing then I cannot get it shipped. I think I have a way around this tho but it would take a while. My father is a truck driver so he is back and forth all the time so maybe it is possible I can get him to pick up a bottle for me, provided it doesn't break any custom laws, and get him to mail it to me whenever he is home. The only restriction it seems is that the bottle cannot be any bigger then 40 ounces or 1.14 liters and I would imagine that a bottle of Riazul is no bigger then 40 ounces.

Or even an american friend can “visit” canada and ship it.

Sorry for all the posts but looks like I am wrong there. Not just anybody can mail it. But it looks like maybe a liquor store can mail it, not 100% sure. This is very annoying.

I've had Canadian's ship stuff to me but they do it in brown boxes via some postal services (UPS maybe) and I don't think they tell people what is inside, then “gift” it over. But, that's not quite legal and if they do scan it, you'll not receive it.

Stores would probably be less likely to do this as they don't want to lose their license.

Well I am still trying to figure out the laws if the liquor stores is a Provincial Liquor Board then it states in the law that they can ship to individuals. Of course I do not know if this means any alcohol or just the type that is already available in canada. Seems like the more I dig (research) the more it seems that the only option is if someone from my town goes on vacation and brings a bottle back to me.

Normally you can bring something back to the country w/o ramifications if you can show proof of receipt. I do it when I go to Germany, you can come in w/o claiming like a few liters or so but that's it.

Even the NH laws are hard to read. I know you can ship into the state (unlike massachusettes) but there are still some shipment companies that refuse to do it. Others randomly reject it but then let it through the next time, it's very weird.

I do not understand why this is so difficult. Its one bottle of alcohol and it is for personal use

Here are a few reasons I've seen (why it's so difficult)

1. Can be flammable which causes risks in shipment.
2. Must require a signature, nobody wants to accidentally hand alcohol to a minor or someone under age, by law that makes them responsible.
3. Import/Export laws on alcohol are a bit more steep because of alcohol content rules, etc.

While importing soap rarely kills a person, importing an alcohols can We have rules against shipments of a few alcohols like Grain Alcohol (at 200-Proof, etc.) as it's highly dangerous.

The liquor stores here offer a Private Order Policy but it looks like the way I want to do it wont work. “Private Ordering is a service offered by the NLC in response to customers requests for products which are not currently available in NLC Corporate and Express stores. These products would be for personal consumption only, not for resale.” But I am guessing that the products still have to be available in canada for it to work.

200 proof damn.

Sounds like “special order” feature. I can do that in Mass, they will try to find the stuff I want and order it special for me; it usually costs a bit more (as I think they pass on shipping costs for low volume orders)

But I am guessing you the product still has to be available in the country.

Perhaps, true.

Are you still using your everydaydrinkers.com email address that I use to contact you with? I have interesting news about what we are talking about but I didnt really want to post it on here. I was very impressed with this actually.

Roger that! I've got 10 email addresses, that one is one of them though

Sent. anybody reading these comments are going to go wtf lol

El Gran Jubileo's 5-year IS technically an Extra-Anejo so really is in a different class than these other anejos. The reason the label says “Anejo” is because the CRT doesn't allow both the age (in this case 5-years) AND the designation of “Extra-anejo” to both appear on the bottle label. El Gran Jubileo decided to include the age and stick with anejo on the label instead of claiming the Extra-Anejo designation.

Try this one again up against some other extra-anejos sometime.