According to Google, Morwenna is the eponymous patron saint of Morwenstow, a civil parish and village 10 kilometres north of Bude in Cornwall. Seems appropriate for a rum that is actually made in Bude, Cornwall. Morvenna White Rum was launched in June 2018 and is made by The Cornish Distilling Co. – and when I … More Review: Morvenna White Rum
I don’t know about everyone else, but since I started my rum journey I have acquired more knowledge in various fields I wasn’t really interested in as a young lad. Geography is such a field, particularly about islands and their position on the map. Well, today I’ve just learned about another island that recently got … More Review: The Juggling King White Rum
Here I have a sample from a rum bottled by Fine Drams. DOK 1489 Trewalny is sourced from Hampden, Jamaica, and it clocks at the hefty ester count of 1488.8 g/hlaa. The DOK marque from Hampden is usually meant to be used in flavouring and perfumery because of its potency. Molasses based, fermented for an … More The Barrel Sample: DOK 1489 Trelawny Jamaica
The Rum-Bar range hails from Jamaica and it was launched in 2007 by the newly upgraded and re-opened Worthy Park distillery. Worthy Park was established as an estate since 1670, but unfortunately in 1962 it had to stop rum production due to a oversupply of Jamaican rum following World War II. It resumed production in … More Review: Rum-Bar Silver
This is part II of my review of The UK Rum Club exclusive High Ester Jamaican Rum Collection pack, you can read part I here for more context, but I’ll repeat myself a bit here because I am nice like that. Wes Burgin (thefatrumpirate) and Steven James (Rum Diaries Blog) in collaboration with Skylark and … More Review: S.B.S x The UK Rum Club High Ester Jamaican Rum Collection (Part II) – DOK vs NYE-WK
In the vast, scary space that is Facebook there is a rum focused UK centered group of misfits appropriately called The UK Rum Club. The admins there, Wes Burgin aka thefatrumpirate and Steven James aka Rum Diaries Blog joined forces with Indy Anand, Chetan Landwa & Jaz Singh aka Skylark Spirits and Joshua Singh aka … More Review: S.B.S x The UK Rum Club High Ester Jamaican Rum Collection (Part I) – STC^E vs WPE
While I’m arriving a bit late to the party regarding reviewing Ninefold, it’s never a bad thing to put the spotlight back on the small producers every once in a while. In my defense I did have a look at their first aged expression their released earlier this year with a limited run of… 10 … More Review: Ninefold Pure Single Rum
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
Danny Walker and Liam Hirt started making gin in a basement in Bristol and named it the Psychopomp Mycrodistillery. They rapidly expanded and created the Circumstance Distillery where they are making grain spirits and… rum! Circumstance Distillery opened in early September last year and is equipped with a 1800L pot-column still hybrid that is very … More Review: Circumstantial Cane – Batch 1
Savanna comes from the Reunion Island which is in the Indian Ocean. I wrote a previous review on Savanna here that covers the history bit as well. Savanna produces rums from both molasses and sugarcane juice. This is a molasses based one although one could be easily confused regarding that. I don’t do many white … More Review: Savanna Herr 57 Rum