Alcohol makes a great holiday gift for a number of obvious reasons, and it's always fun to try something new.
Our friends at FindTheBest came up with a list of exotic bottles from each category of liquor.
These aren't your typical bottles of booze — they're expensive, strange, and difficult to find — but they're sure to be a unique gift for the liquor enthusiast in your life.
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They'll definitely want to show these off to their guests. Prices are approximate
Each bottle of this Canadian whisky is aged 15 years, and it's gold like "the first brushing of the sun upon the snow-covered lakes of the Bras d’Or." This particular bottle also got plenty of media attention when the Canadian distillers were sued for their label's alleged misleading use of the Scottish word "Glen."
According to Wine Enthusiast Magazine, this Barbados rum named after the famous clothing retailer has plenty of delicious flavor, including "baking spices, most notably, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla bean; further aeration reveals coffee bean, cocoa, new saddle leather and toasted marshmallow."
This rich liqueur is made using real Vermont Grade A maple syrup, and it's only available inVermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, California, Nevada, and by special order in Montana and Pennsylvania.
Available only in the fall months, this is the first pumpkin pie cream liqueur to hit the market. Best served chilled, it's also great in coffee and cream-based cocktails.
According to the manufacturers, this Canadian vodka is filtered three times through 500-million-year-old Herkimer diamonds. It's sold in a bottle shaped like a crystal skull.
Produced high in the Chilean Andes, this pisco is "distinctly sweet and floral, but its the sexy midnight-blue bottle with white stars and clear panels that truly attracts attention," according to Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
This South African brandy is aged for 10 years in French oak barrels. It was named "Best Brandy in the World" by the International Spirits Challenge in 2011.