Rum

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.

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