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Background: another local bottling, this time from the Uitvlugt French Savalle still. A friend passed me this sample in exchange for my tasting...
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Background: bought this on the recommendation of a few friends whose tastes I trust. Also, this is /u/Sea_Industry_7312’s favourite spirit of 2...
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In part two of my @nobilisrum tasting, we look at the Uitvlugt 1989 from the Port Mourant double wooden vat still, a single cask aged for 31 ye...
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Background: an old Guyana rum from the acclaimed independent bottler, Compagnie des Indes, more affectionately known as CDI. Serge suggested th...
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Background: I figured it is time to start reviewing the white rums I have. It just seems natural to review a white Port Mourant as a follow-up ...
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Background: the “lesser Skeldon”. This is one bottling that will forever live in the shadows of its big brothers, the Velier 1973 and 1978 Skel...
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Background: this is the second Masam rum bottling I tried, after the 1992 Hampden. I realised I had not written anything about the bottler in t...
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Background: Guyana rums are confusing. There are all these stills that give very different distillates, and all these defunct distilleries thro...
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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...
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Across the rum world, old @velierspa demerara rums are increasingly difficult to find, and even more so to find an open bottle considering that...
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It’s always exciting to find unique or rare demerara rums, especially when I come across one with the Skeldon SWR marque. This one comes from @142...
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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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