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Background: my first taste of Foursquare 2013 happened at The Bar at 15 Stamford, a cosy bar with an extensive rum menu located in The Capitol ...
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Over the last decade, rums have certainly gained increasing popularity; what was once arcane, poorly understood, decidedly marked out for mixer-...
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In part two of my @nobilisrum tasting, we look at the Uitvlugt 1989 from the Port Mourant double wooden vat still, a single cask aged for 31 ye...
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Background: this is a sample I ordered along with a bottle of IB Diamond rum. The 1992 vintage seems like a great one from what I heard, so I h...
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Background: my first bottle of IB Foursquare from some time ago. I remember it being a very sippable rum. Aged tropically in ex-bourbon casks f...
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Background: finally, I was allowed to access my office. This is the first of a few bottles I had intended to review before the lockdown. A spec...
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Background: I came across this yesterday, while browsing a brick-and-mortar shop. It was my first time seeing a Velier Foursquare in the flesh,...
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Background: the lockdown has been lifted for close to two months. I was busy with my Master’s thesis, and then with socialising post-lockdown. ...
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Background: an old Guyana rum from the acclaimed independent bottler, Compagnie des Indes, more affectionately known as CDI. Serge suggested th...
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Background: I was looking at an online store selling colheitas when I came across this. Turns out they have a decent rum selection too. Pulled ...
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Background: I figured it is time to start reviewing the white rums I have. It just seems natural to review a white Port Mourant as a follow-up ...
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Background: the “lesser Skeldon”. This is one bottling that will forever live in the shadows of its big brothers, the Velier 1973 and 1978 Skel...
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