Rum

Review #1130; Rum #449 This is a 5 year old rum from Saint Nicholas Abbey on Barbados. This rum was distilled from Cane Syrup that was made from the cane grown at the Abbey. This was then aged for 5  years in ex-bourbon casks before it was bottled at cask strength. Distillery: Saint Nicholas Abbey Bottler: Saint […]

Review #1129; Rum #448 This sample was provided to me free-of-charge. No compensation, outside of the sample, was received and there were no strings attached. This rum was distilled at the Hampden Estate distillery. It comes from a collaboration with Bodegas Lustau in Jerez. After being distilled, the rum was put into Pedro Ximenez &

Review #1128; Rum #447 This bottle from Renegade is fresh pressed cane juice, the cane being B89447 or “Yellow Lady” as it is called on the island. This rum was pressed, fermented, and distilled on a pot still before being bottled at 50% with no additives. The Cane Code for this bottling is PC01H21-P1. Distillery: Renegade

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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