Drinks

drinks
Here at Calabash, our drinks program is designed to give you an authentic taste of the Caribbean. We are proud to host the largest selection of rums available to the consumer in Vancouver and encourage you to open your taste buds and try a diverse and fantastic spirit, brimming with a rich, colourful, controversial and sometimes sinister history. Our handcrafted cocktails are a small showcase of the drinks we are able to create and use traditional Caribbean flavours utilising house made syrups and fresh ingredients. Let our bartenders guide you on a journey through rum. Be you novice or expert, there’s a rum for everyone.  

Rum List

Appleton Masters Legacy, Jamaica

A blend of 20 different aged rums, some up to 30 years old. Notes of rich orange peel, nutmeg, hazelnut, marzipan and caramel. $12

Bacardi 8 year old, Puerto Rico

Highly regarded rum from Bacardi. Expect a mix of sweet spices with banana, apricot, light oak and honey. $6

Cruzan Single Barrel, St Croix, Virgin Islands

A rum reminiscent of a fine cognac, smooth and rounded with vanilla, toasted coconut and roasted chestnuts on the nose following with sweet ripe papaya, galia melon and banana on the palate. $7

Diplimatico Reserva, Venezuela

One of the finest South American rums. Aged in bourbon barrels, this rum is sweet, rich & smooth with notes of chocolate, golden syrup & citrus. $7

Doorly’s XO, Barbados

Produced by Richard L Seale at the prestigious Foursquare distillery. This rum is aged for 6 years in whisky barrels before a second aging in Oloroso sherry casks. Acacia honey, mango, vanilla bean, baked banana and a hint of walnut. Soft and elegant. $8

El Dorado 15 year old, Guyana

Winner of the Wray and Nephew trophy for world’s best tasting rum 4 years in a row. Created using the world’s only remaining wooden stills, this rum is dry, smoky and silky with notes of dark chocolate, coffee, liquorice and spiced oak. $8

Flor de Cana 18 year old

Distilled 5 times for a smoother flavour and containing rums up to 18 years old. Dry and full bodied with dark chocolate, spice, caramel, nutmeg and allspice. $12

Havana Club 7 year old, Cuba

Perhaps the most recognized aged Cuban rum with a rich heritage. Smooth rum with cocoa, vanilla, caramel and spice on the palate with a nose of espresso, cinnamon, caramelized fruits and sweet tobacco. $7

Matusalem 10 year old, Dominican Republic

Aged in old bourbon barrels using the Solera method. Toasty, well balanced flavours with vanilla, coconut, molasses and toffee. $6

Mount Gay Extra Old, Barbados

Highly regarded spirit from the oldest rum distillery in the world. Containing rums up to 17 years old. This excellent spirit has notes of vanilla, pastry, peachy fruits and warm spice. Rich oak, ripe banana, chocolate and roasted nut on the nose. $7

Pussers Navy Rum, British Virgin Islands

The original navy rum, made to the same recipe served to British Navy sailors since the middle of the 1600s. A blend of West Indian rums distilled in wooden pot stills. Strong but smooth with toffee apple, plums, spice and brown sugar. $7

Pyrat XO, Anguilla

Select rums from the caribbean blended in Anguilla then aged in both American white oak and French Limousin oak barrels. Fantastic rum with citrus peel, dark honey and spice, toasted apricot and grapefruit marmalade. $12

Santa Teresa 1796, Venezuela

Created to commemorate 200 years of Hacienda Santa Teresa. Uses a 25 year old base rum aged using the Solera method to create a complex spirit with honeyed tobacco and dark chocolate. $10

Laya Gran Reserva, Trinidad and Tobago

Recently moved from Guatemala and the site of Ron Zacapa, this delightful rum is a blend of 5 rums aged in medium charred oak barrels. Smoky oak, dark toffee and honey meld with vanilla, chocolate and coffee. $12
 

Cocktails

Ti Punch $10

The way rum is served in the Caribbean; Your choice of rum with muddled lime and cane sugar. Choose from Appleton Reserve, Havana Club 7, Flor de Cana 7, Mount Gay Eclipse, Matusalem 10 year, English Harbour 5 year or Diplomatico Reserva. Try with authentic La Mauny Agricole Rhum for $12

Calabash Dark and Stormy $9

Our version of the national drink of Bermuda; Ginger infused Goslings Black Seal with homemade ginger beer, Angostura bitters, and house made ginger syrup

Cohiba Rakstone $12

Havana Club 7 year old, coco nib infused Appleton VX, Late bottled vintage port, agave syrup and bitters, stirred and strained into a chilled glass coated with Cuban cigar and vanilla pod tincture

Coconut Jumby $11

El Dorado 3 year old rum shaken with fresh organic coconut water, agave syrup, muddled lemongrass, mint and lime zest

Yellow Bird $12

Appleton Reserve Rum, homemade All Spice Dram, Banane du Brasil, vanilla, pineapple and a dash of lemon

Ten Toe Turbo $9

Mount Gay Silver Rum, Cointreau, guava, lemon juice, egg white and Angostura bitters

Reggae on Broadway $9

Flor de Cana 7 year old rum, chilli tequila, mango puree, fresh lime, agave syrup and kaffir lime leaf
 

Wines

Sparkling

Pares Balta Cava NV, Penedes Spain $10 / $40

Whites

Quintay “Clava” Savignon Blanc 2008, Casabalca Valley, Chile $6 / $30 Telmo Rodriguez “Basa” Verdejo 2008, Rueda, Spain $8 / $40 Dr. Pauly Riesling 2008, Mosel, Germany $10 / $50

Red

Southernmost Red Blend 2009, Patagonia, Argentina $6 / $30 Renacer “Punto Final” Malbec 2008, Pedriel, Argentina $8 / $30 Mazzei Poggio Alla Badiola, Tuscany, Italy 2008 $10 / $50

Champagne

Gosset Grande NV, Champagne, France $100

Reserve White

Jean-Marc Brocard “Montmains”, Chablis, France $80

Reserve Red

Allegrini “Palazzo della Torre”, Verona, Italy $60
 

Beer

Draught

Guinness, Ireland, 5.0% $6.75 Red Truck Lager, Canada, 5.0% $6.00 Sapporo, Japan, 4.7% $6.50 Sleeman Honey Brown, Canada, 5.2% $6.50 Seasonal Beer, ask your bartender for details

Cheeky One

A 4oz glass to have quickly while you decide what to drink or cheekily before hitting the road! $1.5 0

Bottles

Carib, Trinidad, 5.1% $6.25 Dos Equis Amber, 4.6% $6.25 Redstripe, Jamaica, 4.7% $6.25 San Miguel, Philippines, 5.0% $6.25 Al Hambra, Spain, 6.4% $6.25 Steam Whistle, Canada, 5.0% $6.00 Phillips Blue Buck, Canada, 5.0% $6.00 Tusker, Kenya, 4.2% $8.00

Non Alcoholic

Sorrelade, Hibiscus flowers brewed with ginger, citrus and soda $3.50 Homemade ginger beer $3.50 Organic Coconut Water, Amazingly delicious $6.00 Kola Champagne $3.50 Fresh Fruit Juice, Fresh orange, pineapple, cranberry, grapefruit, guava or sour sop $3.00 Ting $3.50 Sodas $3.00 French Press Coffee $3.00