Rum

This rum was bottled by Velier, and produced by that famous distillery Hampden located in Jamaica. Distilled in 2010, aged for 10 years tropically in Jamaica, this was then bottled at cask strength in 2020 with no additives. Clocking in at 350-450 gr/hlpa for ester content, this doesn’t duke it out with some of the […]

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

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,

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

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

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.