This year brought a lot of great rums and I was very tempted to make a top, but after thinking about it I decided to go a different route – you can check my Top 3 featured on the RumCask website though. There are plenty of such articles out there, so I wanted to write … More Article: The Benevolence Of The Rum World
As the 2nd best selling rum brand in the world after Tanduay, reviewing a Bacardi offering, more so their Carta Blanca, doesn’t seem necessary – but I’ll do it anyway. Bacardy y Compania was founded in 1862 by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso in Santiago de Cuba. Cuba went through a few wars and the future … More Review: Bacardi Carta Blanca
Important: No brands will be mentioned, but I will provide any other information I have available… even made a pie chart, so strap in. Drinks By The Dram comes from the online retailer Master Of Malt as a mean to try various spirits as tasting drams (30ml) rather than having to buy the whole bottle. … More Review: Rum Advent Calendar (2020 Edition) – Drinks By The Dram (Spoiler Free)
I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard of this brand until I saw it on a shelf and took a sample with me. Google was equally ineffective, doesn’t look like the rum is in production anymore although it’s still available. Looks and it’s marketed like your usual supermarket rum with words like “smooth”, “mellow”, “superior” and … More Review: Cane Trader Dark Rum
Don Papa, which was created in 2012, hails from the Philippines, Negros island, and it’s distilled at Bago Distillery by Ginebra San Miguel for the Bleeding Heart Company – slightly confusing, eh? The Bago distillery was founded in 1902 by La Tondena Distillers and in 2003 was bought by San Miguel. The name origin for … More Review: Don Papa Small Batch Rum 7 Year Old
As a fairly knowledgeable cocktail bartender I try and engage with customers as much as I can given the opportunity. Here’s a situation: A customer tells his friend that he loves rum.Me: Oh really, I love rum too, what do you usually drink?Customer: I love Kraken! At that point the rum enthusiast in me is … More Article: Is Your Favourite Rum A Rum?
Diamond Distillery, Guyana, has no less than 12 stills (although not all produce rum) under their roof from which three of them are made of greenheart wood – Enmore Coffey Still, Versailles Single Pot Still and the infamous Port Mourant Double Pot Still. Spoke a bit more about their stills and heritage in my That … More Review: El Dorado 12 Year Old
Wood’s has been around since 1887 and has been owned by William Grant & Sons since 2002. Its stubble bottle packaging has been around since 2016, I saw pictures around of the old one and I have to say I am happy I met it in its current form. The label states “Original navy recipe” … More Review: Wood’s Old Navy Rum
I reviewed a sample of this a while ago and I decided to “reboot” the review today complete with a pretty picture. Santa Teresa Estate (Hacienda Santa Teresa) was founded, unsurprisingly, in 1796 in Aaragua Valley, in Venezuela, where they were growing cocoa, coffee and, of course, sugar cane. Santa Teresa 1796 was born in … More Review: Santa Teresa 1796
Fabio Rossi studied winemaking but that didn’t stop him from establishing his own whisky company, Wilson and Morgan in 1992, and soon after a rum company – Rum Nation. Both companies acted as independent bottlers, but because this is a rum blog we will focus on the Rum Nation. The idea for Rum Nation started … More Review: Rum Nation Supreme Lord III 1982 Jamaica