This comes to us from Campeltown and is a 14 year old Kilkerran. This was aged entirely in a refill bourbon casks, triple distilled, and bottled at cask strength with no additives and was non-chill filtered. This was bottled and sold for the Virtual Campbeltown Festival. ABV: 57.8% Nose: Honey, Graham cracker, Vanilla, faint banana, lemon zest,
Review #570; Scotch #181: Kilkerran 14yr Open Day 2020 Bourbon Cask Read More »
This custom batch, a whole 12 bottles which was selected by the Restaurant Madre, comes to us from Durango Mexico under the La Mata brand and was produced by Familia Lerma. Batch: 50T-L 25/06/19 ABV: 49.8% Nose: Fresh cut grass, vanilla cream, slight rubber, faint wood smoke Palate: Thick oily mouthfeel. Rubbery, heavy earthiness, minerality, faint oak spice, black
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Chairman’s Reserve Master Select “Lincoln Road” 8 Year This bottling comes to us from St. Lucia distillers and was selected by the Lincoln Road package store. Aged tropically for 8 years, this is a blend of 2 different stills and was bottled with no additives. This is the last of this mini-series so let’s see
100% Vendome This comes to us from St. Lucia Distillers. This was selected by Bitters and Bottles in California and bottled under the Chairman’s reserve line. This rum was aged tropically for 13 years, and is 100% from their Vendome Pot Still. This was bottled with no additives to it, so let’s see how it
50/50 John Dore 1 – Vendome This Chairman’s pick comes to us from Package store Lincoln Road. It is a 13 year old Blend of distillate from the John Dore 1 Pot Still and the Vendome Pot still. It was tropically aged for all 13 years, and bottled with no additives. Let’s see how it
50/50 John Dore 1 and Vendome This bottling comes to us from St. Lucia distillers on St. Lucia. This was bottled for the Florida Rum Society in conjunction with Sarasota Liquor Locker and their “Eskimo Brothers” barrel picking society. These 2 blends were aged for 3 years separately, then aged another 5 blended together. This
Review #565; Rum #84: Chairman’s Reserve Master Select 8yr 50/50 JD1/Vendome Pot Stills Read More »
50/50 John Dore Pot Still and Coffey Column Still. This St. Lucia distillery began bottling these master selects rather recently as a blend of their various stills and ageing. This one was tropically aged for 8 years before being bottled with no additives. This will kick off a little mini series on some Master Selects
This comes to us from Barbados distiller Foursquare. It Is 12 years old, aged entirely in ex-bourbon casks, and is a blend of pot and column distillate. Compared to the 2005 offering, this has more Pot Still rum in the blend. This has no additives and was bottled at 59%. ABV: 59% Nose: Vanilla cream, caramel, coconut,
Review #563; Rum #82: Foursquare ECS 12yr 2007 Read More »
XXX/Four (Fiji 15 Year) and Holmes Cay Fiji 2004 (16 Year) Blind Thanks to some people I am trying these 2 semi-blind to get my true feelings on them. I was revealed the bottlings after I wrote my notes down. XXX/Four is a 15 year old bottling selected by r/rum and the Aficionados. It was rebarreled in
Review #561-562; Rum #80-81: XXX/4 (15yr Fiji) and Holmes Cay (16yr Fiji) Read More »
This comes to us from American IB Holmes Cay. This bottling was aged for 15 years in ex-bourbon casks in Belize at the Traveller distillery before being bottled with no additives from Cask number 6. ABV: 61% Nose: Heavy Vanilla Bean, Caramel, Black Pepper. Cinnamon. Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel. Toffee, vanilla bean, tobacco leaf, black pepper, cinnamon. Finish: Medium
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