Now here’s a rum I wasn’t really aware of until I attended the Paris Rhum Fest 2024. This is a brand hailing from Disaronno which might already raise some eyebrows, but you shouldn’t dismiss it until you try it. Rump@ablic was launched in 2022 in both Italy and France and it will make its debut … More Review: Rump@blic Sicilian Legacy Line – Barbados, Jamaican & Jamaican & Venezuelan
It seems like Appleton are at the top of their game lately, with these unique Velier collaboration and their legendary Appleton 17 Year Old which is supposed to emulate the long lost original Mai Tai rum, Wray & Nephew 17 Year Old. Unfortunately, as far as I’m concerned, a lot of these bottlings are outside … More Review: Appleton Hearts 1993 vs Appleton Hearts 2002
I’m a huge fan of the stuff that Beenleigh Distillery makes – in fact it’s probably the very first Australian rum I have ever tried. S.B.S Australia 2007 is one of my favourite rums bottled from them and it has one of the highest scores on my blog. That’s why I was excited to try … More Review: Velier Beenleigh 2015 vs Velier Beenleigh 2006
Here’s a rum I only got to try thanks to the benevolence of a fellow rum enthusiast and, well, the Rum Show. By the time I got to the Foursquare stand at Rum Show to say hello to Peter Holland I was already a bit… over-sampled – hence the not-so-good pictures, so I apologise about … More Review: Foursquare LFT White – Habitation Velier
Finally here! After the announcement at the Luca Gargano’s rum session at RumFest about a sherry cask aged Hampden, it finally hit the UK market a few weeks ago and it obviously sold out in a blink. Despite that, after a few searches, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a bottle and … More Review: Hampden Estate Pagos Sherry Cask
Hampden Great House Distillery Edition (HGHDE) from Hampden, Jamaica was launched earlier this year and it already sold out. Put together by Vivian Wisdom, Hampden’s Master Distiller, HGHDE is a blend of two marques with the first one being the predominant one: Quite a jump in digits there. Molasses based, pot still distilled and aged … More The Barrel Sample: Hampden Great House Distillery Edition
The second in the Foursquare Distillery (Barbados) – Velier (Italy) collaboration. Molasses based, pot and column still distilled, a blend of 3 different vintage rums aged in 3 types of casks: Bottled at 56% ABV with no colouring, additives or chill filtering. While not on the market anymore, when it was released in 2017 there … More The Barrel Sample: Foursquare Triptych – Velier
Fabio Rossi studied winemaking but that didn’t stop him from establishing his own whisky company, Wilson and Morgan in 1992, and soon after a rum company – Rum Nation. Both companies acted as independent bottlers, but because this is a rum blog we will focus on the Rum Nation. The idea for Rum Nation started … More Review: Rum Nation Supreme Lord III 1982 Jamaica
Part of the Habitation Velier range which consists of unique, pure pot still distillates from around the Carribean. As the name suggests, my sample of rum was distilled at Diamond Distillery, Guyana, in the legendary Port Mourant Double Wooden Pot Still. With a congener level of 537.59 gr/lAA, it’s molasses based, (wooden) pot still distilled … More The Barrel Sample: Port Mourant White – Habitation Velier
I kept postponing this as I decided I need a clear head and a good night’s sleep before I dive into these two, which never happens, so I might as well get on with it. The two new rums from Richard Seale’s Foursquare Distillery in Barbados showed on the UK market “just now”, a month … More Review: Foursquare Nobiliary vs Foursquare Plenipotenziario