Plantation Fiji 2009 is what I am writing about today. I have to be honest, I don’t have experience with Fiji rums, this being one of the reasons I bought it, but I do have experience with Plantation. Plantation is owned by Maison Ferrand which was founded by Alexandre Gabriel in 1989. They are mainly … More Review: Plantation Fiji 2009
Mezan is an independent bottler from the UK that prides itself on its pure rums, without any additives/colorants and only lightly filtered. They take rum chosen by their Cellar Master and mature it in ex-Bourbon casks (I believe there is continental ageing involved, although it’s unspecified) until “it has reached the hight of its potential” … More Review: Mezan Jamaica 2005 (Worthy Park)
Angostura 1824 rum comes from the House of Angostura, a company that is mostly known, if not for the rums, for their Angostura Bitters everyone around the world uses in their cocktails. The 1824 on the bottle is actually the year when a German doctor Johann Siegert, who was a Surgeon General in the Venezuelan … More Review: Angostura 1824 (pre-2010)
Revelation Rum comes from Smooth Ambler Spirits from Greenbrier County in West Virginia. They started in 2009 and are mostly into whiskey business, this being the first rum they have bottled (and the only one). I have to thank once again to thefatrumpirate who also did a review on the Revelation Rum and left a … More Review: Smooth Ambler Revelation Rum
Companero Panama Extra Anejo is coming from 1423 – World Class Spirits, a Danish company that works with, among other spirits, different rum producers to bring some interesting bottles on the market. I first heard about them with their S.B.S (Single Barrel Selection) range which features rums from around the world taken from selected single … More Review: Companero Panama Extra Anejo
Now I wanted to do a review of both of these Doorly’s therefore I decided to challenge myself (I am new to this) and make a comparison. Doorly’s comes from Barbados and it’s part of the R.L. Seale & Co. Ltd. which owns the Foursquare Distillery where their rums are made. So many different names … More Review: Doorly’s XO vs Doorly’s 12 Year Old