Review #1127; Rum #446 This rum was bottled by Holmes Cay, the American Independent bottler, for the Austin Rum Society in Texas. This molasses based rum from DDL in Guyana was distilled from molasses on the Port Mourant Double Wooden Pot Still. This rum was aged for 8 years in the UK and 1 year […]
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Review #1126; Rum #445 This rum was bottled by Dead Reckoning, an Australian independent bottler that has finally made its way to the US. Here we have rum from Killik, a distillery that uses muck and dunder in their rum production process. This molasses based rum in run through a single retort in bottled unaged
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Review #1125; Rum #444 Renegade is a new rum distillery from Mark Reynier, known more for his work at Bruichladdich and Waterford. In Grenada, he built a brand new state of the art distillery. There, Renegade grows all the cane that goes into its rum. These first bottlings are known as “pre-cask’ and are made
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Review #1124, Brandy #64 This is a bottling of Calvados that was distilled in 1999 and bottled in 2022. This blend of 70% pear and 30% apple was aged for that time period in ex-french oak. Before being distilled on a single alembic and aged the fruit fermented in oak casks for 11 months. Distillery: Lemorton
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Review #1123; Rum #443 Here we have a single cask of Hampden Estate rum bottled by The Whisky Jury. Distilled from molasses on a pot still this very high ester marque aged for 15 years before being bottled at cask strength. Distillery: Hampden Bottler: Whisky Jury Region: Jamaica Still: Pot ABV: 62.3% Cask: Ex-Bourbon 15 Year Nose: Buttered Popcorn, Dirty Vanilla,
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Review #1122; Brandy #63 Here we have a single vintage of Calvados. This Calvados contains 70% pear and 30% apple. The fruit ferments for 11 months in oak before being distilled on a single alembic. This was distilled in 1980 and aged in French Oak before being bottled. Distillery: Lemorton Bottler: Lemorton Region: France Still: Single Alembic ABV: 40% Cask:
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Review #1121; Rum #442 This rum comes from Rum 970, probably the most common brand of Madeira rum that is known. This rum was distilled at Engenhos de Norte’s from fresh pressed sugar cane juice on a pot still. It was then aged for 15 years in ex-Madeira wine casks before being bottled. Distillery: Engenhos de
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Review #1120; Rum #441 Saint Nicholas Abbey is a rum distillery located on Barbados. This rum is pot and column distilled from cane syrup and bottled with no filtration. The rum then rests in stainless steel for 3 months before being bottled Saint Nicholas Abbey is a very small producer in scale when compared to
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Review #1119; Brandy #62 This Apple brandy comes to us from Clear Creek, a distiller based in Hood River, Oregon that distills various different brandy styles. This single cask was selected by the Aficionados group. This apple brandy was fermented and distilled from from yellow apples from the Yakima Valley. It was aged for 15
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Review #1118; Rum #440 This is a rum bottled by the independent bottler Compagnie des Indes. This rum was distilled at a secret Florida distillery, aged for 14 years, and finished in a French Whisky cask before being bottled. I would venture to guess (doing a light bit of research) that his rum comes from
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