Rum Reviews

  This is the second TDL rum (Trinidad Distillers Ltd) of what should be a total of six single casks that were all distilled on the very same day,...

  To be honest, people don't go loco for Trinidad's sole surviving rum-maker Angostura (or more specifically, its rum-producing subsidiary, TDL, ...

  I had previously reviewed the whole range of single estate Clairins from Velier. A key feature of Clairins - and in my opinion, still the best w...

  When we think of rums, we typically think of the Caribbean, the bedrock of rum-making. Of course, these days distillers from all over have given...

  @boutiqueyrum is no stranger to Caroni rums, having released at least 12 different bottlings since they started. Batch 8 was the first that I t...

  Back in the middle of January, Diageo acquired Don Papa for €260 million, with a further potential €177.5 million investment to be made between ...

  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...

"Woodes Rogers" New Yarmouth 1994, 27 Year Old, 67.1% ABV; "Samuel Bellamy" Uitvlugt 1991, 30 Year Old, 62% ABV; "Charles Vane" Long Pond 1983, 38 ...

  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...