Rum Reviews

  You’re walking through a liquor store or browsing through the website of an online spirits retailer. Perhaps you want to try something new, grow...

  After nearly a year of waiting and enquiring, I was very pleased when I finally acquired a bottle of this 38-year-old rum distilled at the Gard...

  After tasting @rhumj.bally’s 1929 millesime, it seemed appropriate for me to follow-up with a review of another old rhum from J. Bally’s select...

  J. Bally is one of the more prominent rhum agricoles, most of which comes from either the islands of Martinique or Guadeloupe. Rhum agricoles th...

  I never thought I’d have the opportunity to taste this rhum, not only because of its scarcity, but also the price that comes along with a rhum ...

  It was only a few days ago that @masamindependentbottlers shared some photographs of the late Mr Silvano Samaroli with a selection of his bottl...

  Back with @boutiqueyrum today as I taste something special from the Boutique-y Records - a series of rum and whisky bottlings that were special...

(Image Source: Distilia)   When it comes to rums, there’s an element that you can’t really escape, and that’s the often cited influence of the Na...

  This one’s a unicorn, I’ve been told. And because it was primarily meant for the Japanese market (more on that later), and the only known bottle...

  Jamaican rums are having a real moment - and for good reason, these ester fruit bombs are smack-you-in-the-face tasty and you don’t need to be b...

   Amongst @velierspa’s Elliott Erwitt Edition Magnum Series #1 is, for the first time in its 257 years of history, an independent bottling of @r...

  @velierspa's Elliott Erwitt Magnum Series I am tasting today is one from the @mountgayrum distillery in Barbados. What makes it stand apart fro...