Rum Reviews

  The second of @distilia_ rums that I had the privilege of tasting was one from their new Floral Rum series - the Caroni 1998 Chaconia exclusive...

  Have you ever wondered what it is like to smell or taste someone’s personality and experiences? Are our senses even capable of such a thing? One...

   Long Pond is a distillery that is much beloved by the rum community, but has been plagued but several start-stops in its recent history. Each t...

  The Greenheart collection is a series of old demerara rums bottled by @distilia_ that were distilled from the late 1980s till the early 90s. Th...

  This review of @dead_reckoning_rum’s highly anticipated bottling of a two-years-and-five-months-old @mhoba_rum was long overdue, one that I sho...

  This was my maiden visit to @thewritingclubsg on the occasion of a special @valinchandmallet tasting, where we were treated to an excellent lin...

  Neisson is located near Saint-Pierre, Martinique, at the foot of Mount Pelee, a volcano whose last great eruption in 1902 almost wiped out the ...

  Hampden's are big - so when the Jamaican rum distillery releases a new mark, you'd be forgiven for being surprised that the interest in it would...

   This might look like an otherwise unassuming bottle of clear liquid, frankly it looks no different than water. But to the rum world, this was q...

  The last rum review of 2022 leads me back to one from the final chapter of the age of @velierspa’s demerara rums - the Diamond & Port Moura...

  Background: when it comes to Jamaican rums, Hampden is my go-to distillery; there are just so many bottlings of very old continentally aged Ham...

  During a recent masterclass with Phil Thompson of the Dornoch Distillery/Thompson Bros IB, I got to try a nice expression from the 1997 vintage...