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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
Apr 27, 20244 min read
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Panama rums review
Panama rums - all thin and dull? Think again
Mar 28, 20244 min read
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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
Mar 17, 20247 min read
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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...
Dec 16, 20235 min read
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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....
Nov 23, 20235 min read
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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...
Feb 11, 20235 min read
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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 28, 20222 min read
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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 27, 20225 min read
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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 19, 20224 min read
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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 10, 20224 min read
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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...
Dec 3, 20223 min read
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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 8, 20227 min read
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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...
Nov 5, 20225 min read
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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 14, 20225 min read
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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 7, 20224 min read
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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 2, 20225 min read
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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...
Oct 1, 20225 min read
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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...
Aug 20, 20226 min read
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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...
Feb 27, 20224 min read
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