The Barrel Sample: That Boutique-y Rum Company – Foursquare 12 Year Old (Batch 1)

April 5, 2020

A Master of Malt sample I’ve had laying around for a while now. This The Boutique-y Rum Company sample hails from Barbados, more exactly the well acclaimed Foursquare Distillery. Molasses based, a blend of column and pot still distillates, aged for 11 years in the tropics and an additional year in the UK all in … More The Barrel Sample: That Boutique-y Rum Company – Foursquare 12 Year Old (Batch 1)

The Barrel Sample: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society – “Three spice creme brulee” – Trinidad 26 Year Old

April 2, 2020

A sample of SMWS’ rum bottling that hails from Trinidad (most likely Angostura given the lack of pungency). Molasses based, distilled on 31st of December 1991, aged for 26 years in refill ex-Bourbon barrel and bottled at a generous 61.3% ABV. Cask number R10.2. Not sure about additives as I’m not familiar with the company. … More The Barrel Sample: The Scotch Malt Whisky Society – “Three spice creme brulee” – Trinidad 26 Year Old

Review: Rum Exchange Guyana – Port Mourant 11 Year Old

March 31, 2020

Rum Exchange began as a Facebook group where people could trade… well, bottles of rum. Now the company itself which was started by Andreas Isopp is involved in importing and distributing various small brands and also has its own range of rums sourced from various distilleries/countries – I reviewed their first bottling that hails from … More Review: Rum Exchange Guyana – Port Mourant 11 Year Old

Review: Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve Rum Velier 70th

March 23, 2020

Worthy Park is located in the central parish of St. Catherine in Jamaica. Established in 1670, it started sugar production in 1720 and it produced rum since the 1740’s up until 1962 when they had to stop due to an over supply of Jamaican rum following World War II. In 2004 the Clarke family, which … More Review: Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve Rum Velier 70th

Review: Berry Bros. & Rudd Classic Range – Nicaragua Rum

March 15, 2020

The company that came to be Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) started in 1698 with a widowed woman whose last name was Bourne and a shop in the neighborhood opposite St. James’s Palace, which in that year became the official principal residence of the monarch. I won’t go through the whole lineage and how the … More Review: Berry Bros. & Rudd Classic Range – Nicaragua Rum

Review: That Boutique-y Rum Company – Diamond Distillery, Unconfirmed Still, 18 Year Old (Batch 1)

March 14, 2020

I’m on a Guyana Rum crave lately and when I saw this That Boutique-y Rum Company (TBRC from now on for obvious reasons) released I couldn’t stay away. I have a few TBRC reviews uploaded, but this bottle is quite intriguing at the very least. The rum is sourced from Diamond Distillery, Guyana (whose flagship … More Review: That Boutique-y Rum Company – Diamond Distillery, Unconfirmed Still, 18 Year Old (Batch 1)

Review: That Boutique-Y Rum Company – Casa Santana 12 Year Old (Batch 1)

February 9, 2020

Casa Santana Ron Y Licores S.A.S was established in Baranquilla, Colombia in 1993 in partnership with the Cuban government in order to bypass the Cuban trade embargo by making a rum similar in style with the Cuban one but in Colombia. I did ask Peter Holland, the soul of That Boutique-y Rum Company, for some … More Review: That Boutique-Y Rum Company – Casa Santana 12 Year Old (Batch 1)