Rum Reviews

The @appletonestateja’s Hearts Collection is a rather interesting collaboration with @velierspa, first launched in 2020 with three different vinta...

  Across the rum world, old @velierspa demerara rums are increasingly difficult to find, and even more so to find an open bottle considering that...

Foursquare is very much a household brand amongst rum drinkers, particularly since @richardseale_foursquare’s collaboration with @velierspa which ...

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...

It was an absolute treat to have tasted this wonderful caroni again at @theauldalliance, one of the few single-cask caronis that were specially bo...

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...

  When we speak of mythical or unicorn rums, rhum Lapalun 1952 from Petit Bourg, Martinique, by @chantalcomte is one that remains relatively well...

Sometimes I stumble upon something relatively obscure and special, one that doesn’t grab the headlines but rather encapsulates a kind of quiet bea...

I really enjoyed @rhumtroisrivieres’ Cuvée Bèlè from Martinique, selected from the single limousine cognac cask no. 22-4 and bottled at 52% abv by...

I’ve covered Kingsbury rums in some of my reviews and they have garnered a fair bit of interest, mostly because there is so little about the Kings...

This 30-year-old 1988 demerara rum from the Enmore distillery was quite an interesting one. Bottled in 2018 from a single cask 17, Silver Seal rel...

Jamaica has a few things in common with Singapore. Both are island states, enjoy tropical weather and share a British influence in their early hist...