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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  Here we have another single cask Uitvlugt 1989 for tasting, this one bottled by @cormancollins in 2022 at an abv of 49.5% (cask strength I pres...

  Last night’s affair at @mandalaclub.sg was an excellent one with @matthieugouze who brought us through the various rums from Jamaica, Barbados,...

  The final piece in my Barbancourt rhum tasting is one from the 2004 vintage that has been rather comprehensively bottled by various independent...