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
Last summer I’ve been on a trip to Nice, France and while browsing supermarkets I’ve seen this rum quite a few times at a very cheap price. I couldn’t bring any with me due to my lack of luggage, but a I asked a very close person of mine to bring me one of the … More Review: Rhum Negrita Bardinet
This expression was launched for the That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s 20th anniversary. It’s a rum from the now defunct Caroni Distillery, Trinidad, baring the HTR marque – Heavy Trinidad Rum. This rum has been finished in a Islay whisky cask in order to see how the peatiness would work with Caroni’s intense profile. Molasses based, … More The Barrel Sample: That Boutique-y Rum Company – Caroni Distillery, Trinidad, 20 Year Old (Batch 12)
“New year, new me!” is the saying, but I think that’s something more likely to apply to rum rather than people. Even continuous bottlings are subject to change as time passes by and I’m going to test that theory with these two bottles of Bacardi. It is said that Bacardi 8 was created in 1862 … More Review: Bacardi Reserva Superior 8 Year Old vs Bacardi Reserva Ocho
Hope everyone is having a good start of the year! I’m starting off strong with some rum distilled at Foursquare Distillery (Barbados) that was bottled by The Good Spirits Co. (Glasgow). The Good Spirits Co. is a Glasgow based specialist drink retailer that was founded in 2011. They have three branches in the city and … More Review: The Good Spirits Co. – Foursquare Barbados 2006
I decided it was time to look into some of my samples for the end of this year and I chose this bottling from Bristol Spirits. This rum comes from Labourdonnais in Mauritius and was bottled by Bristol Classic Rums in the UK. The Mauritius 2010 uses cane juice as the raw material and was … More The Barrel Sample: Bristol Spirits – Mauritius 2010
Last night (Tuesday 20th of December) Pennyroyal Cardiff had a takeover at London’s rum capital, Trailer Happiness and it was a really good event – I should know, I was there shaking drinks alongside them. They did the takeover in order to promote their new collaboration with Saint Lucia Distillers, the Chairman’s Pennyroyal. Pennyroyal Cardiff … More Review: Chairman’s Reserve Master’s Selection – Pennyroyal
Banditti Club is a brand of spiced rum that is part of the Glasgow Distillery portofolio. It was launched in 2018 and since then it already gathered a couple of awards. If you know me, then you know I’m not too excited about spiced rums, but I’ll never dismiss them completely, I am a bartender … More Review: Banditti Club Spiced Rum & Banditti Club Smoky Rogues Rum Batch 01