These gift sets make excellent gifts every year - and not just during the holidays.

After the holidays they put these on sale at most locations, which I then pickup at a serious discount and distribute as bday, graduation, and party gifts since most of them dont have holiday-specific packaging.

I'll be checking back on this post often after Xmas!

I'm not so sure on the mob thing...while I don't doubt it at all...

I think it's more of a stupid old Quaker law.

We just started getting liquor on Sundays two years ago, and beer in cases this past Sept in time for football.

They are attempting to put liquor in grocery stores, but the stores themselves have to be so many sq. feet and the liquor store will exist inside the store and act as a seperate entity.

Again, luckily I'm close to the MD border!

phermat said:PnAyHoTsPt said:I just picked up an E & J VSOP 750 mL gift set. Came out to about $9-$10 (it's on sale @ Longs this week).

This one?

Yup. That's the one.

Posting what I just found at Sav-On Drugs...forgive me if I can't be more specific but all these were up on top of the store shelves waaaaay above my eye level. They all seemed to be same price as the same sizes bottles, from those in stock.

Jim Beam whiskey + silver flask/cigar holder

Level One vodka + 2 frosted martini glasses

Sauza Tequila + 2 shot glasses

Bacardi Big Apple vodka 750 ml + 2 nice glasses which appear to be heavy and about the size of highball glasses' clear with green bottoms

Bacardi Razz Raspberry vodka 750 ml + same as above, only with rasperry colored bottoms

Wild Turkey whiskey 750 ml $15 + 2 narrow highball glasses

Southern Comfort 750 ml $10 + 1 smallish mint julep type glass with Southern Comfort on the label

Alize (whatever that is) + 1 BIG wineglass

Di Saronna + 2 glasses (clear with cut-glass type bottoms, hard to see in more detail)

Patron tequila 45 + 4 shot glasses labeled "Padron Tequila" in gold lettering.

Bailey's Irish Cream 750 ml + 2 clear glasses

Cazaborez tequila 28 + 1 HUGE margarita glass

Ketel vodka + silver cocktail shaker and recipe book (may be more in the box, couldn't tell)

Hypnotiq vodka + 1 Large sea glass colored martini glass (looked very nice!)

Gray Goose vodka + 2 frosted martini glasses

Jameson whiskey 750 ml + set of 5 coasters in an angled tower holder

Malibu mango rum $10 + 3 or 4 lighted ice cubes

Grand Marnier $33 + a nice large snifter-type glass

Also saw a bottle of Moet & Chandon nectar champagne clearanced for $20, grabbed it. Some other CA wines on clearance for $5 a bottle & up.

Nah. The taxes keep alcohol prices are fairly standard unless you go onto an indian reservation or illegally order from out of the country or something.

MedicBarbieDoll said:rjj130 said:I'm not so sure on the mob thing...while I don't doubt it at all...

I think it's more of a stupid old Quaker law.

We just started getting liquor on Sundays two years ago, and beer in cases this past Sept in time for football.

They are attempting to put liquor in grocery stores, but the stores themselves have to be so many sq. feet and the liquor store will exist inside the store and act as a seperate entity.

Again, luckily I'm close to the MD border!

UGH. State Stores SUCK. I miss living 15mins from DE.

You don't know what suck is until you try to buy hooch in the Baptist South. Bend over and take those taxes, sinner!

And you never get any good deals (no coupons, rebates, etc.), liqour distro is controlled by monopolies so no competition (no ads either), no booze on Sundays, blah.

Usorry said:has anyone seen a Maker's Mark giftset?

I actually think I did. I think it had a glass with it, but I can't remember. How is Maker's Mark? I have received their free promotional stuff and if they take at least the same amount of time in that stuff as they do with their alcohol it has to be good.


Picked up the Level and 2 frosted martini glasses.

Do these usually go on clearance after the holidays? Any experiences with picking up cheapppppppppppp booze?

Jim Beam nog is Egg-cellent.

bad pun intended.

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As for the cheap booze. The gift set usually don't go on "sale" because the are priced similarly to the regular booze at the same size.

what is absente?