Rum Reviews

  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...

  To honour Black Tot Day, it seemed only appropriate for me to come around tasting @blacktotrum’s Last Consignment, a true expression of the Roy...

  Background: this is a dram I had at The Auld Alliance, one of the great whisky bars of the world. An old Hampden bottled in 2019 from a vat of ...

  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...

  Rum drinkers today would know that the Golden Age of @velierspa Demerara rums was a pivotal moment in rum history, where the world was introduc...

  Rum Review #1: "Rum of The World" Fiji 6.5yo single cask for Shangri-La Singapore   I come from the Scotch side of things. My S/O likes rum a l...

  Its been awhile since my last review, thus I thought I would do something old, something special, like an old agricole rhum that dates back to ...