Rum Reviews

  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 ...

(Image Source: Velier, Jonny Melon)   You’d be easily forgiven for not having heard of Takamaka. Now, what about Beenleigh? Haven’t heard of them ...

    One of the lesser known demerara bottlings from @velierspa, the EHPM 1998 was bottled in July 2014 at the tail-end if Velier’s age of demer...

  That time when I joined @the_rum_cartel and @rum_ble_inthejungle at @d.bespoke for some rums bottled exclusively for the Japanese market.I thou...

   Last night at @limehouseasia to celebrate the release of their second official bottling with @preciousliquors - a single cask 1994 New Yarmout...

  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...

  In the last of my @nobilisrum review, we take a look at release no.5 - the single cask Enmore 1988 32-year-old, distilled from the Versailles s...