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Two Volumes Of 100 Aspects Of The Moon: Uitvlugt 1991 31 Year Old & Diamond 2001 22 Year Old, As Selected By Precious Liquors and Stefan van Eycken
January 2, 2024
I'll just come out and say it - these are some of the coolest labels I've seen on rum bottles. Now, bear in mind, unlike whiskies where the labe...
- @111hotpot
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Precious Liquors
- Rum
- Stefan van Eycken
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Three Pirates Walk Into A Bar: Distilia TDL 1991 'Black Bart', Diamond 1996 'Captain Benjamin Hornigold' & Grenada (Westerhall) 1993 'Edward Low', Golden Age Of Piracy
November 15, 2023
If you've heard of the Golden Age of Piracy series from Distilia before, fret not, you're not dreaming - we've got three more pirates joining th...
- @111hotpot
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Distilia
- Grenada
- Guyana
- TDL
- Trinidad
- Westerhall
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Velier Diamond & Port Mourant Demerara 1999
December 30, 2022
The last rum review of 2022 leads me back to one from the final chapter of the age of @velierspa’s demerara rums - the Diamond & Port Moura...
- @weixiang_liu
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Rum
- Velier
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Two More Silver Seals 2020: Silver Seal Demerara, Uitvlugt, 1989/2020 (30 years old) & Silver Seal Demerara, Diamond, 2002/2020 (17 years old)
July 29, 2022
Introduction: The Auld Alliance very recently put up a tasting set of six samples, one for each Silver Seal rum release this year. Three of the...
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Rum
- Silver Seal
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Diamond 2006, 15 Years Old, Versailles Still, REV, Guyana, Bottled by Nobilis Rum, 56.6% ABV
June 14, 2022
One of the latest releases from @nobilisrum, the Guyana Diamond 2006 REV is truly exceptional, perhaps one of the best demerara rums I’ve had o...
- @weixiang_liu
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Nobilis
- Rum
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M&E Diamond 2003, in collaboration with Charles Fazzino (17 years)
May 13, 2022
Background: another local bottling, this time from the Uitvlugt French Savalle still. A friend passed me this sample in exchange for my tasting...
- Diamond
- Fazzino
- Guyana
- M&E Drinks
- Rum
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Diamond Single Cask Guyana rum 2003, bottled by Bristol Spirits, Corman-Collins and The Auld Alliance (15 years)
April 30, 2022
Background: Guyana rums are confusing. There are all these stills that give very different distillates, and all these defunct distilleries thro...
- Auld Alliance
- Bristol Spirits
- Corman Collins
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Rum
- u/zoorado
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Diamond Distillery Pot Still Cask Strength 2004, bottled by Hunter Laing under the Kill Devil label (12 years)
April 29, 2022
Background: so, I was forced into a partial lockdown before I could retrieve some precious bottles from my office. I had no choice but to order...
- Diamond
- Diamond Distillery
- Guyana
- Hunter Laing
- Kill Devil
- Rum
- u/zoorado
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Diamond 1988, 20 Years Old, 54.9% ABV, Guyana, 100th Anniversary of De Monnik Dranken, El Dorado Rum's Rare Collection
March 2, 2022
Demerara rums occupy a very special place in my collection, and even more so when I find one that was wholly tropically aged in Guyana. This is on...
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- Diamond
- El Dorado
- Guyana
- Rum
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