The Auditor

This bottling comes to us from American bottler Holmes Cay. It was a single barrel of Jamaican rum from the Clarendon distillery, picked for the Rochester Elite Barrel Pickers. Aged for 9 years it was bottled with no additives. Let’s see how well they chose. ABV: 59% Nose: Tropical fruits, pineapple, touch of banana, both slightly over-ripe.

This comes to us from the Barbados rum producer foursquare. Distilled in 2005 then bottled in 2017, this was tropically aged for 12 years in ex-bourbon barrels. A blend of pot and column still rums, it was bottled at cask strength with no sugar and no additives. This is the first of a small number

This bottling comes to us from famed bottler Velier. This bottling coming from Privateer, that American rum producer based out of Ipswich Massachusetts. This bottling was made using 100% imported molasses which was fermented for 6 days, then double distilled through a Vendome Pot Still then a custom Batch still. It is a blend of

This is a molasses based rum from the Reunion distillery. This rum has been produced in the Grand Arome method, whhre it was fermented for 6 days to encourage the development of esters. Clocking in at 578.7 grams per hectoliter, this rates up there with the likes of Rumfire in terms of funky level. Let’s

This rum comes to us from Mauritius, from the Grays who also produce the New Grove Series. The cane for this rum was grown, harvest, and processed all on the Pampelmousses Estate in Mauritius. It was Column distilled from molasses. This rum is a blend of of spirits aged 5, 6 and 12 years, all