This is (or was) Rum Martinique - just a cheapish basic rum to keep one going in the dark, cold wintery evenings =)

If by "partner in crime" you refer to Zhuang Zhou, I belive he was more of a wine drinker! Or, at least, chinese poet Li Bai who lived nearly thousand years after Zhuang Zhou was a keen follower of Daoist philosophy, and often mentions enjoying wine in his poems.

And the same goes for the lamb meat - some parts I already cooked and enjoyed with red wine. Oh, and now this brings to my mind something what happened after I bought a bottle of Port Wine and enjoyed it sitting in the oak on my yard. On the bottle it said that it will stay good for weeks after opening - but it didn't! After three or four days the wine was gone, and nothing stayed for longer!