Every year during December I’ve come to look forward for a new Cotswolds Treacle Rum release. Cotswolds is an English distillery situated in, well, Cotswolds and their main focus are gin and whisky production. The rum was a little experiment that one of Cotswolds’ Senior Distillers, Leon, conducted under the guidance of the former Wray … More Review: Cotswolds Treacle Rum – 2022 Batch
As a (London based) reviewer getting to write about a rum bottling before its official release in the UK is very useful and frankly, really exciting. On that note in my glass today I have the 22nd Exceptional Cask Selection from Foursquare Distillery which has yet to have arrived to the UK market. Not a … More Review: Foursquare Touchstone – Mark XXII
Montanya Distillers was established in 2008 by Karen Hoskin and the distillery is currently located in Crested Butte, Colorado. They make some great rums and they also engage in a lot of sustainability and other projects that aim to have a positive impact on the environment and local community. One of such projects was the … More Review: Montanya Valentia
This fairly well known rum from India is one of the largest selling rum brands in the world, but it’s also quite divisive. Even among my Indian friends, some seem to really enjoy it while others were happy to provide me a bottle in order to see how I’d rip it apart in a review … More Review: Old Monk Very Old Vatted XXX 7 Years Old (PET Bottle)
O Reizinho is one of the agricole rum producers of Madeira and here I have a sample from a young, aged expression bottled by the independent bottler That Boutique-y Rum Company. This is cane juice based, pot still distilled and aged for 9 months in a former Madeira wine cask. Bottled at 57% ABV without … More The Barrel Sample: That Boutique-y Rum Company – O Reizinho 9 Months Old (Batch 1)
One of the perks of being a rum blogger that works in a rum bar is that I get to taste rum – a no brainer, I know, but sometimes I get my hands on a sample of rum I wouldn’t normally be able to try. Proof And Wood is one such rum, as the … More Review: Proof And Wood Pot Still Rum 3/2 – Jamaica
Another year, another Foursquare vintage, another review and another opportunity to have some great rum. I was able to purchase this bottle via the regular means, just placed an order online as it was released, which was a relief. To my knowledge, this release has around 30.000 bottles available so hopefully more rum drinkers get … More Review: Foursquare 2010 – Mark XXI
Taking advantage of airport duty free shops is a fun little side-quest for a rum enthusiast and I’m sure most will agree. This bottle of Rhum J.M was a nice little find in the nice little airport in Nice, France – full disclosure, it wasn’t me who actually bought it, it was though my girlfriend … More Review: Rhum J.M Fumee Volcanique
Today is nice, fairly sunny day, so I thought I’d go through my samples and I found this Guyanese distillate bottled by the independent bottler Mezan. This rum was distilled in 2011 on one of Diamond Distillery’s heritage stills – the French Savalle. Molasses based, column still distilled and aged for 3 years in the … More The Barrel Sample: Mezan Guyana 2011
I’m a big fan of the Single Barrel Selection (S.B.S) brand from the Danish company, 1423 World Class Spirits. They have released an impressive portofolio of single cask rums, experimental series, interesting finishes/maturations and so on. The S.B.S Origin is showcasing a collection of four unaged rums that were/will be used as a base for … More Review: Single Barrel Selection Origin Rum – Guyana PM & Dominican Republic Aroma Grande