West Indies Dark Rum 1948 Samaroli 49% vs Lapalun Rhum Petit-Bourg Vieux Rhum dela Martinique 1952 / 1972 50%
West Indies Dark Rum 1948 / 1991 Samaroli 49% Probably the most nuanced rum I have had the pleasure to taste. In quick succession: molasses, licorice, cedar wood, sweet seaweed, … Continue reading
Bellevue 17 yo 1998 Duncan Taylor #94 52.2% vs Bellevue 18 yo 1998 Kill Devil Hunter Laing 58.2%
Bellevue 17 yo 1998 Duncan Taylor #94 52.2% Papery dry bark, moist spongecake, and sugar glaze with hints of acerbic lemon zest. A lot more shows up on the tongue, … Continue reading
Clément 1976 Très Vieux Rhum Agricole 44% vs Rhum Vieux du Pere Labat 1997 42%
Clément 1976 Très Vieux Rhum Agricole 44% A deep and burnished rhum that is, though I hate to use the word, totally smooth without any of the salty or phenolic … Continue reading
Monymusk ‘Sugar Estates of Jamaica’ Rhum Agricol Moon Import 46% vs Monymusk 12 yo Berry Brothers for La Maison du Whisky 55.4%
Monymusk ‘Sugar Estates of Jamaica’ Rhum Agricol Moon Import 46% Note this is a Rhum Agricole.. distilled in Jamaica… very odd because Jamaican rum is traditionally molasses based. Light almost … Continue reading
Hampden 7 yo 2010 Velier 62% vs Long Pond 15 yo 2003 1200/1300 ‘Continental Flavoured’ TECA 63%
Oberservation: Some of these high quality young rums completely outclass whisky of the same age. Counterpoint: Apples and Oranges though. Hampden 7 yo 2010 Velier 62% Thick treacly yet salty … Continue reading
Caroni: Carribean XO Berry Bros vs Caroni 1997 The Rum Swedes #106 vs Caroni 12 yo 1996 Krugers Whiskygalerie #1107
This is the first rum head to head, I think Caroni would be an excellent subject. The Caroni Distillery, founded 1918, produced rum in Trinidad until it closed in 2002, leaving … Continue reading
Port Morant 1975, 32 yo, Guyana Single Rum, Rendsburger, 56.9%
Feeling Whisky is getting overpriced? Fear not, premium rum is still largely undiscovered. Previously we had a Rhum Agricole from Berry Brothers, that is to say a rum distilled from … Continue reading
Guadeloupe, 1998, 12 yo (Rum) Berry Bros. & Rudd
Rum! Guadeloupe is of course in the area we call the Caribbean, east of Puerto Rico, north of Trinifad and Tobago. It is part of France, so I am in … Continue reading
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