Experimental rum cask finished Christian Drouin Calvados
Calvados aged in rum barrels. What's not to like. Four of the best reviewed side by side
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Rhum Rhum Liberation Integrale side-by-side + bonus!
Rhum tasting review of Rhum Rhum liberation integral range. Side by side rum tasting blog article
Dec 16, 20235 min read
Vieux Sajous side-by-side review
Clairin (or Kleren) - the artisan sugar cane spirit of Haiti. Made by over 500 tiny agricultural producers across the island, this unaged...
Nov 23, 20235 min read
Continental Aged Guyana - Colours Of Rum
Following my comprehensive El Dorado Rare Collection reviews (here and here), I'm going to stick with Guyana for a few more articles....
Feb 11, 20235 min read
Paranubes Rum - Full lineup review
Oaxaca [pronounced wa-haka] - a rugged, mountainous, isolated state in the deep south of Mexico. Best known for it's indigenous people...
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Sugar House Blood Tub 2021 Vs 2022
Sugar House distillery - Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish rum I hear you say? Well apparently they know a little something about distilling...
Dec 27, 20225 min read
Rum Of The Year - 2022
What an amazing year - this year I have reviewed a quite astonishing 110 rums from 16 different countries!! That fact alone really...
Dec 19, 20224 min read
Aged Madeira Rums - quick-fire reviews
Following my recent Maderia unaged head-to-head (here), it's time for (a lot of) aged Madeira rums! This being the fourth, and final...
Dec 10, 20224 min read
Madeira Rums - 5 distillery, unaged, head-to-head review
All 5 Madeira distilleries, a cracking bottle from each, how do they measure up? The third article in our Madeira series. The first...
Dec 3, 20223 min read
Hampden Great House 2022 - review
A firmly established and much anticipated date in the rum calendar - release of the new Hampden Great House! 2022 being the 4th rum in...
Nov 8, 20227 min read
Madeira Rum pt2 - The distilleries and bars
Following on from my overview article about Madeira Island and its incredible rum history (here), today I'm going to provide little...
Nov 5, 20225 min read
Madeira Rum - the most important rum article you'll read this year - pt1
Madeira - the most important place in the history of rum...!?!? In 1426, just 7 years after the island was discovered, decades before...
Oct 14, 20225 min read
Caroni from 1997 & 1998 reviewed
Ahhh Caroni. Once a major contributor to the British Navy's Rum Blends, the legendary Trinidad based distillery sadly closed its doors...
Oct 7, 20224 min read
Foursquare LFT and Habitation Velier friends
LFT - Long Fermentation Type. A new, super unique, highly anticipated, likely unobtainable 2022 release from Foursquare (and Habitation...
Oct 2, 20225 min read
Extreme rum tasting - wish me luck!
... and now for something completely different! These hairbrained rums sit at the very extremes of the global rum spectrum. In fact,...
Oct 1, 20225 min read
Velier Magnum Series Review - Elliot Erwitt
Well the buzz words are all there ... Velier, limited edition, bigger bottles! But do these recent releases contain juice that warrants...
Aug 20, 20226 min read
Best Ever Clarendon Rum - ultimate taste off
Following on from my epic Clarendon/Monymusk tasting article last year (here) - I'm stepping things up another level! Today I'm...
Feb 27, 20224 min read
Père Labat - 5 rhums reviewed
Père Labat or father Labat is a rhum brand of the Poisson distillery in Marie Galante. A small picturesque island off the coast of...
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