Review #1437; Rum #736 The Velier Magnum series is an interesting collaboration between rum and photography. Spanish photographer Cristina De Middle, president of Magnum photos, came and took pictures of Hampden distillery. Four of these photos were selected for this Velier Jamaican series highlighting the famed Jamaican distillery. This botting of rum was distilled from […]

Review #1436; Rum #: 735 The Velier Magnum series is an interesting collaboration between rum and photography. Spanish photographer Cristina De Middle, president of Magnum photos, came and took pictures of Hampden distillery. Four of these photos were selected for this Velier Jamaican series highlighting the famed Jamaican distillery. This rum from Hampden Estate was

Review #1435; Rum #734 This rum comes from Independent bottler Bedford Park, who has quickly put together quite a reputation for bottling rum. This rum comes from the Savanna distillery and is of the High Ester Reunion Rum marque. It aged for 5 years in ex-bourbon in Europe before being bottled at cask strength with

Review #1434; Rum #733 The Velier Magnum series is an interesting collaboration between rum and photography. Spanish photographer Cristina De Middle, president of Magnum photos, came and took pictures of Hampden distillery. Four of these photos were selected for this Velier Jamaican series highlighting the famed Jamaican distillery. Working with Hampden, this bottling is rum

Review #1433; Rum #732 Here we have a bottle of rum from the folks at Bristol Spirits, one of the earliest players in the independent bottler game. This is an unaged cane juice Rhum from Labourdonnais Distillery located on Mauritius island in the Indian ocean. This rhum was bottled with no additives. Distillery: Labourdonnais Bottler: Bristol Spirirts

Review #1432; Rum #731 This bottle of rum from Hampden Estate is the distillery’s oldest expression to date. This rum was distilled from molasses on a copper pot still in 2010 after fermenting wildly with cane vinegar, dunder, and muck. Put into an ex-bourbon barrel it aged for 15 years at origin in Jamaica before

Review # 1431; Rum #730 Here we have a bottling from Australian based independent bottler Dead Reckoning. This rum was distilled from molasses at Diamond Distillery in Guyana (also known as Demerara distillers limited). This rum is a blend of all 3 of the distillery’s wooden still, the Wooden Continuous Coffey Still (EHP), the Single

Review #1430; Rum #729 Here we have a bottling from American Independent bottlers Rolling Fork. This rum is a blend of unaged Hampden rums forced from the Jamaican distillery. These rums were distilled from molasses after a long fermentation on copper pot stills. This rum was then blended with 80% LROK, 10% C<>H, and 10%

This sample was provided to me by a producer, distributor, or some other industry source free-of-charge. No compensation, outside of the sample, was received and there were no strings attached. Review #1429; Rum #728 This bottling from the Flag Series, put together by LMDW, comes from Ghana. This is a cane juice rum that was

Review #1428; Rum #727 This is a single cask of rum from independent bottler Hamilton. This is from Diamond distillery in Guyana. Molasses was distilled on the wooden Enmore still, then aged in Eurpe till being bottled at cask strength with no additives. Distillery: Diamond Bottler: Hamilton Region: Guyana Still: Wooden Column ABV: 66.8% Nose: Vanilla, Pencil Shavings, Black Pepper, Apple