Rum Reviews

  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...

  In the last of the “special tastings, I take a look at, and of course a taste of, @rhums_neisson’s Nonaginta, dedicated to the 90th anniversary...

  Hampden is basically the gold standard of Jamaican rums these days - some might even in their fervour venture as far as to place the estate syno...

  After the Caroni 1996 Guyana Blended Paradise #1, it was only natural to taste the second bottling of the Paradise range too - the Caroni 1998 ...

  @whiskylivesingapore was a pretty hectic affair, having squeezed all my various rum samplings into one Sunday afternoon. Yet there were some ve...

  This reminds us of... a trip through the rainforests with all the diversity of every shade of flavor profile. Try this if... you're big into ...

  It isn’t everyday that we have the chance to taste a rum from the golden age of @velierspa’s Demeraras, when Velier brought to the world a sele...

  Background: a head-to-head between two old continentally-aged demerara rums of great repute. Much has been said of Velier’s contribution to “pr...