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New Yarmouth 1994 Heavy Jamaican Rum, 27 Year Old, Lime House Asia (Singapore) bottled by Precious Liquors
February 4, 2024
Lime House is a Caribbean focused restaurant in Singapore that houses within it a very well stocked rum centric bar. The restaurant takes its na...
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Tortuga No. 3 Caroni 1998, 24 Year Old, Mizunara Finish, Precious Liquors & East Asia Whisky Company
January 12, 2024
The Tortuga set of Caroni's stand out as being one of a select handful of the fabled lost Trindadian distillery's rum bottlings that have been v...
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Two Volumes Of 100 Aspects Of The Moon: Uitvlugt 1991 31 Year Old & Diamond 2001 22 Year Old, As Selected By Precious Liquors and Stefan van Eycken
January 2, 2024
I'll just come out and say it - these are some of the coolest labels I've seen on rum bottles. Now, bear in mind, unlike whiskies where the labe...
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- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Precious Liquors
- Rum
- Stefan van Eycken
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Clarendon 1995, 26 Years Old, for Aficionados Group, 68.3% ABV
December 25, 2023
Background: the 1995 batch of IB Clarendons contain some of my favourite rums; it is a wonder I have not reviewed any one of them till now. This...
- Aficionados Group
- Clarendon
- Jamaica
- Rum
- u/zoorado
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Two Legendary Velier Demerara's: Velier Skeldon 1978 & Velier Port Mourant 1974
April 10, 2023
Background: these need no introduction. A friend happened to be at The Golden Promise in Paris, and asked if I were interested in any of their ...
- Demerara
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Rum
- Skeldon
- u/zoorado
- Velier
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Two Long Pond TECAs: National Rums of Jamaica TECA 2003 (15 years) & Habitation Velier TECA 2005 (14 years)
December 28, 2022
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...
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Old Cadenhead’s Demerara's: Cadenhead’s XPD 1971 from Enmore Distillery, 61.8% a.b.v. (32 years) & Cadenhead’s GM 1974 from Uitvlugt Distillery, 61.5% a.b.v. (30 years)
November 15, 2022
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...
- Cadenhead
- Demarara
- Guyana
- Rum
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Velier Caroni 1996, Cask #R3721 "Fire" (20 years)
October 19, 2022
(Image Source: @exceptionaldrinks on Carousell) Background: for my taste, 1996 is the best vintage for a Caroni rum. This particular one comes ...
- Caroni
- Rum
- Trinidad
- u/zoorado
- Velier
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Two More Silver Seals 2020: Silver Seal Demerara, Uitvlugt, 1989/2020 (30 years old) & Silver Seal Demerara, Diamond, 2002/2020 (17 years old)
July 29, 2022
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...
- Demerara
- Diamond
- Guyana
- Port Mourant
- Rum
- Silver Seal
- u/zoorado
- Uitvlugt
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Velier Blairmont 1991 (15 years)
May 16, 2022
Background: this is my first review of a Velier demerara rum. There is little to say of this Velier demeraras that has not already been said by...
- Blairmont
- Demerara
- Guyana
- Rum
- u/zoorado
- Velier
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Rum Artesanal Hampden 1990 (31 years)
May 16, 2022
Background: a cask from one of the best Hampden vintages, bottled by one of the best rum IBs. What could go wrong? Nose: very expressive, yet i...
- Hampden
- Jamaica
- Rum
- Rum Artesanal
- u/zoorado
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Hampdens, pushing 1000: Old Brothers <H> Jamaican Rum 2001 (19 years) & Rum Sponge Edition No. 6, JMH Jamaican Rum (29 years)
May 16, 2022
Background: two rums with ester concentrations not far from 1000g/hlpa. One is a tropically aged cask of mark <>H. The other is a blend o...
- Hampden
- Jamaica
- Old Brothers
- Rum
- Rum Sponge
- u/zoorado
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