Rum

Appleton Estate Hearts This small collection of reviews is of the 3 initial Appleton Estate Hearts collection, the 26 year 1994, the 25 year 1995, and the 21 year 1999. All 3 are a special release collaboration between Luca Gargano of Velier and Joy Spence of Appleton rums. These are all single marque, multi cask […]

This aged Clairin comes to use by way of the Casimir distillery located in Baraderes, Haiti. Distilled from sugar cane juice, these aged barrels are a relatively new thing thanks to La Masion and Velier erecting a small warehouse in Port-au-Prince to age this rum in bourbon, wine, and ex-rum casks. This cask, selected by

This single barrel of Jamaican rum is from the Long Pond Distillery. It was aged for 15 years in an ex-bourbon barrel and bottled for The Whisky Agency. ABV: 49.3% Nose: Pineapple, Vanilla Chai, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Cement Glue, faint pencil eraser, Palate: Medium oily mouthfeel, Pineapple, Guava, Nutmeg, Vanilla Chia, Cement Glue, Toasted Coconut, Finish: Medium length finish,

This rum comes to us from Louisiana based rum distillery Happy Raptor distillery. This 504 Silver rum is made from Louisiana molasses that is distilled on a copper Pot still and bottled with no additives. ABV: 40% Nose: Vanilla, Light Earth, Faint Vegetal Palate: Thin and Watery mouthfeel, Vanilla, Earthy, fades quickly. Finish: Short, Vanilla, Earthy, slight metallic tinge.

This rum comes to us by way of American Independent bottler Single Cask Nation. This rum was produced at the Beenleigh distillery located in Australia. It was aged for 14 years in a 2nd fill bourbon hogshead (with most of the ageing occurring in Australia) before being bottled at cask strength with no additives. ABV: 65.1%

This is a single cask rum bottled by Rom Deluxe. This rum comes to us from La Reunion Island (likely Savanna distillery), purported to be the Grand Arome recipe, distilled on a column still, and aged for 8 years in ex-red wine casks in Europe before being bottled at cask strength. ABV: 55.6% Nose: Raspberry, Vanilla Cream,

This rum comes to us from legendary producers out of Guyana Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL). This rum was distilled in 2004, aged in the tropics in ex-bourbon barrels, then bottled at cask strength with no additives in 2018. Let’s see how it holds up. ABV: 60.1% Nose: Burnt Caramel, Crème brûlée, Blackberry compote, espresso, Dark Chocolate, Caramelized

This rhum comes to us from the Bellevue au Moule Distiller in Grande-Terre. This rhum is produced on column stills from fresh estate sugar cane juice, fermented for 24-36 hours, and distilled to 86 or 88% abv. It was distilled in 1995 and bottled in 2010. This bottling came from an outlay of 42 casks

This is a cool rum collaboration between Velier (that great Italian IB) and E&A Scheer those rum sourcing folks. They took some rum from Monymusk and bottled it. However, these are the same rum with the same Marque that have been aged an identical set of time. The major difference was the climate as one

Samaroli is an independent bottler based out of Italy that usually selects Scotch. This bottling is a blend of rums from various distilleries and countries. The rums were vatted in 2009, and then aged in new American oak barrels until bottling in 2011. They are as follows • Barbados 1996 • Barbados 2002 • Demerara