Pure Single Rum – 100% Pot Still
El Dorado “Rare” Collection: Port Mourant 1999 Guyana 61.4% £170 Pure Single Rum – 100% Pot Still * P ABV Hydrometer Test: 61.5% ABV @ 20° Click HERE for all El Dorado reviews. El Dorado’s foray into the world of unblended, additive-free, single marque rums is in the form of three offerings in their “Rare” Collection:… Continue reading El Dorado “Rare” Collection: Port Mourant 1999
El Dorado “Rare” Collection: Versailles 2002 Guyana 63% £160 Pure Single Rum – 100% Pot Still * P ABV Hydrometer Test: 61% ABV @ 20° Click HERE for all El Dorado reviews. DDL / El Dorado’s foray into the world of unblended, additive-free, single marque rums is in the form of three offerings in their… Continue reading El Dorado “Rare” Collection: Versailles 2002
Compagnie des Indes Hampden 15yo Jamaica 43% €85 Pure Single Rum (100% Pot Still) Hydrometer Test: 43% @ 20° * P Compagnie des Indes is a French company paying homage to the historic East India [trading] Company, importing pure rums. Their intention is to showcase fine rums without additives. This is the third of THREE… Continue reading Compagnie des Indes: Hampden 15yo
Compagnie des Indes: St Lucia 13yo St Lucia 43% €75 Pure Single Rum (100% Pot Still) ABV Hydrometer Test: 43% ABV @ 20° * P Compagnie des Indes is a French company paying homage to the historic East India [trading] Company, importing pure rums. Their intention is to showcase fine rums without additives. This is… Continue reading Compagnie des Indes: St Lucia 13yo
St. Nicholas Abbey 5yo Barbados 40% £60 100% Pot Still (Pure Single Rum) ABV Hydrometer Test: 40% ABV @ 20° * P St. Nicholas Abbey was purchased by the Warren family in 2006, who have restored it to its 17th century plantation state. This [5yo] is the first rum entirely distilled by St. Nicholas Abbey –… Continue reading St. Nicholas Abbey 5yo
Hampden Estate: Rum Cask Single Cask 17yo Jamaica 63.2% €52 (50cl, equivalent to €73 for 70cl) 100% Pot Still (Pure Single Rum) ABV Hydrometer Test: 63% ABV @ 20° * P Co-incidence is a strange thing! As I was at the Rum University at RumFest on October 21st, I was chatting with a fellow “student”… Continue reading Hampden Estate: Single Cask 17yo
“There’s a time and a place”…..SOMEWHERE 😉 Mount Gay claim the title of oldest rum producer in the world dating back to 1703. But the brand has only actually existed for about 100years. Mount Gay Master Distiller Alan Smith (above). He explained that if you eat enough molasses it puts lead in your pencil… Continue reading Mount Gay Tasting: RumFest 2016
Unfortunately all RumFest tasting sessions run late and today is no exception. Ian Burrell’s rare rums talk overran although it was a great tasting so that’s not a problem. I’m quite excited as this is my first Velier session at Rumfest. I’ve long been a fan of Velier’s bottlings…I’ve just bought two bottles of the… Continue reading Velier tasting 2 @ RumFest 2016
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