Transporting and storing rum - 2 experiments!
Oak barrels at Bielle distillery in Marie-Galante. Nothing to do with the article, just a great day at an awesome distillery Experiment...
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May 266 min read
Rum Travels - Jamaica
Rum travel hints and tips from the incredible island of Jamaica
Jan 188 min read
Hampden C<>H blind side-by-side tasting review
A monster high ester mark ... a monster tasting. 8 outstanding Hampden C<>H - it's a knockout!! (hope not literally) Starting the year...
Jan 11 min read
Would you like to try my rums of the year?
Rum is for drinking. Rum is for sharing. So I'm offering a set of samples of these amazing drams to one of my readers. No catches. No...
Dec 27, 20235 min read
Rum Of The Year 2023
What a year. Scarily quick. Scary generally. Personally a milestone year, saying goodbye to our beloved home and basement bar. And a...
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...
Dec 8, 20235 min read
Demerara Reviews 2023 - Secret Rum Bar Finale
The stand-out rums from 4 previous tastings - it's going to be fascinating pitching these side by side today to see how they fare....
Nov 29, 20235 min read
Continental Aged Guyana - Silver Seal & Rum Shark
For my final set of new rums in this Guyana series, we have four more Port Mourants. Three of these were majority (80%+) 'continentally...
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....
Nov 19, 20233 min read
Foursquare Covenant Vs Isonomy
Covenant - release 23 of the Exceptional Cask Series from Foursquare distillery in Barbados. Another year on, another Foursquare...
Nov 18, 20234 min read
El Dorado Rare Collection - The Finale!
Exciting doesn't come near ... it's time for my champion to be decided! Following last weekend's comprehensive run down of the full Rare...
Nov 11, 202311 min read
El Dorado Rare Collection side-by-side tasting
A very special review this weekend of these iconic, limited release, Guyanese rums. Tasting reviews are obviously subjective, however [as...
Jun 25, 20237 min read
Rum Travels: Guadeloupe - Part2 Basse Terre & Grand Terre
A quick 1hr ferry back from dreamy Marie Galante to Pointe-à-Pitre and we're ready for part 2 of my Guadeloupe rum travels blog. If you...
May 10, 20237 min read
Rum Travels: Guadeloupe - Part1 Marie Galante
What a dream trip. 2 weeks in Carribean rhum heaven. It would be a travesty not to share what I learned and experienced. Getting there -...
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...
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