Rum Reviews

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

  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...

  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...

(Image Source: @exceptionaldrinks on Carousell)   Background: for my taste, 1996 is the best vintage for a Caroni rum. This particular one comes ...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...