Rum Reviews

  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...

  "Where there's sugarcane, there's rum." Is a saying you'll find yourself repeating over and over if you stay in the rum drinking game - it'll ne...

  @the_rum_cartel created quite a stir yesterday by unveiling Foursquare and @velierspa’s latest collaboration, Fidelitas. This is the oldest Four...

  As the Caroni story reaches its final chapter - its legend, of course, hopefully lives on - we're left with some 139 (originally 140, but one br...