Sam’s Spirits selection is one of the largest in South Carolina, with over 4500 products spread across our store. We carry everything from your main liquor products like Jack Daniels and Crown Royal, to a host of specialty brands for our customers. If we don’t have something you want – please make a request. We keep an ongoing customer request list which is reviewed with our distributors every week.

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Recent Spirits Tastings – December 2011

Smirnoff Whipped Creme Vodka – Smirnoff Whipped Cream Flavored Vodka is made with the essence of whipped cream flavors and vodka distilled from the finest grains and filtered in a unique process.Triple distilled, ten times filtered

Asyla – The ultimate “everyday,” “before dinner” or“Sunday afternoon” Scotch whisky. With just a splash of chilled water, this blend of soft, sweet grain whiskies and elegant, refined malt whiskies epitomises “deliciousness” in the world of Scotch whisky.

Oak Cross - This Scotch Whisky offers the best characteristics of both American and French oak aging. A rich, medium-bodied malt whisky, Oak Cross combines vanilla characters from American oak and spicy,clove-like characters from French oak.

Peat Monster – For those who love big, rich, smoky-peaty malt whiskies, this is for you. Peat Monster combines smoky and peaty single malts from the island of Islay and the Isle of Mull with rich, medium-peated Speyside whisky. The result is a balanced, highly drinkable peaty malt.

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News from the World of Spirits

Can Cocktails Save Your Life?

By Anneli Rufus, Huffington Post

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anneli-rufus/can-cocktails-save-your-l_b_1172860.html)

It’s that time of year again when, for many, comfort comes in cocktail glasses. And while too much is definitely too much, a surprising number of new studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption can actually benefit our health and help us live longer than drinking no alcohol at all.
 
A new report published in the January issue of The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs found that while red wine has gained much acclaim thus far for its antioxidant-based beneficial qualities, moderate beer and martini drinkers also “showed reduced mortality risks compared with abstainers.” As defined by that study, “moderate” means one to two beverages daily.

Other recent studies show associations between moderate drinking and reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease, kidney cancer, stroke, heart disease, asthma and many other killers. (Think asthma isn’t lethal? It killed Johnny Paycheck and a member of the Runaways.)

As for why so many studies find moderate drinkers living longer and better than nondrinkers, some say it’s because alcohol consumption increases heart-healthy high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, aka “good cholesterol.” Alcohol consumption also protects against heart disease by lowering levels of fibrinogen, a plasma involved in blood clotting. And resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, protects the heart and slows the aging process.

Social factors might also be involved. Moderate drinkers — as opposed to both heavy drinkers and abstainers — tend to be middle-class, thus tend to follow nutritional, exercise and other health-related guidelines rigorously.

Want to stave off kidney cancer and Alzheimer’s in 2012? If all these scholarly studies are to be believed, you might want to start with a nice glass of Cristal. Or a velvety No. 3 Negroni, comprising equal quantities of red vermouth, Luxardo Bitter Liqueur and No. 3 Gin. Or an eye-popping Wasabi-tini — comprising simple syrup, sake-infused vodka, lemon juice, edamame and two heaping teaspoons of wasabi per glass — as devised by bar manager Greg Svitenko at Ozumo restaurant in Oakland, California.

To increase the health benefits of these and other such beverages on New Year’s Eve and all year ’round, don’t get behind the wheel of a car after drinking them.