Rum Reviews

Mhoba's rums can be quite commonly found on the shelves of specialist boutiques or rum bars today. But it wasn’t always the case; to my knowledge...

  I still remember that delightful evening nearly two years ago, hosted by Gregory Vernant and La Maison du Whisky Singapore that saw a pairing of...

  Reunion Island is an incredibly small island off the east coast of Madagascar, and if you head four hours southwest from the island, you'd find ...

  Blends are an often overlooked category in the world of spirits of today, a hangover, perhaps, from the whisky industry which in its early days ...

  Hampden has now added to its core range a third expression - the Hampden 1753  - paying homage to the year of the Jamaican rum distillery's foun...

  Marie Galante, often nicknamed the Island of A Hundred Windmills or perhaps more bluntly Big Pancake, is a relatively small island off the coast...

  And we're back with another Hampden from The Whisky Jury! Now we've covered The Whisky Jury before, having tasted their wide range of spirits fr...

  By now the rum community is well aware that one of Japan's most artisanal rum producers, the one-man distillery that is Yoshiharu Takeuchi's Nin...

  On to the third bottling of Velier’s most recent Caroni Paradise releases, we are once again acquainted with the youngest vintages from the dist...

  Last week local Singaporean distributor and independent bottler Nanyang Whisky held a showcase of some of the rums in their portfolio - and one ...

  With the Caroni Paradise #6 out of the way, we arrive at #10, a single cask bearing the numbers #3927, holding Caroni rums of the Heavy Trinidad...

  By now, many would be familiar with Velier’s Caroni Paradise series, introduced to the world in 2021, marking the very last casks of Caroni rums...