Rum Reviews

  Also part of the original trio, Clairin Vaval features Clairin made by Fritz Vaval at his distillery Arawaks, that sits on the southern Haitian ...

  Part of the original trio, Clairin Sajous is named after its maker Michel Sajous, who produces the Clairin out of his small 30-hectare distiller...

The @appletonestateja’s Hearts Collection is a rather interesting collaboration with @velierspa, first launched in 2020 with three different vinta...

  Across the rum world, old @velierspa demerara rums are increasingly difficult to find, and even more so to find an open bottle considering that...

Foursquare is very much a household brand amongst rum drinkers, particularly since @richardseale_foursquare’s collaboration with @velierspa which ...

It’s always exciting to find unique or rare demerara rums, especially when I come across one with the Skeldon SWR marque. This one comes from @142...

It was an absolute treat to have tasted this wonderful caroni again at @theauldalliance, one of the few single-cask caronis that were specially bo...

Demerara rums occupy a very special place in my collection, and even more so when I find one that was wholly tropically aged in Guyana. This is on...

  When we speak of mythical or unicorn rums, rhum Lapalun 1952 from Petit Bourg, Martinique, by @chantalcomte is one that remains relatively well...

Sometimes I stumble upon something relatively obscure and special, one that doesn’t grab the headlines but rather encapsulates a kind of quiet bea...

I really enjoyed @rhumtroisrivieres’ Cuvée Bèlè from Martinique, selected from the single limousine cognac cask no. 22-4 and bottled at 52% abv by...

I’ve covered Kingsbury rums in some of my reviews and they have garnered a fair bit of interest, mostly because there is so little about the Kings...