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Velier Isautier 16yr - Cane Juice Vs Molasses
An awesome head to head today. Two rhums, both from Isautier distillery on the island of Reunion (South Indian Ocean), both selected and...
Jan 14, 20233 min read
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Rummieclub - Dutch Rums Review
Yep - rum hand made in Amsterdam! And by all accounts about as handmade as you can get. Rummieclub is a tiny artisan Dutch...
Jan 13, 20233 min read
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Foursquare ECS 1-20 Uber Blend Review
The brainchild of Kevin Brooks, this sits plumb in the middle of madness, genius and heresy! As the name describes, Kevin's project was...
Jan 7, 20233 min read
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Wild Parrot - 1994 New Year's New Yarmouth review
A quick review today, otherwise known as 'a bit of new years eve indulgence' - especially as I'm tasting this against two of my...
Dec 31, 20223 min read
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Sugar House Blood Tub 2021 Vs 2022
Sugar House distillery - Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish rum I hear you say? Well apparently they know a little something about distilling...
Dec 28, 20222 min read
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Rum Of The Year - 2022
What an amazing year - this year I have reviewed a quite astonishing 110 rums from 16 different countries!! That fact alone really...
Dec 27, 20225 min read
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Aged Madeira Rums - quick-fire reviews
Following my recent Maderia unaged head-to-head (here), it's time for (a lot of) aged Madeira rums! This being the fourth, and final...
Dec 19, 20224 min read
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Madeira Rums - 5 distillery, unaged, head-to-head review
All 5 Madeira distilleries, a cracking bottle from each, how do they measure up? The third article in our Madeira series. The first...
Dec 10, 20224 min read
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Hampden Great House 2022 - review
A firmly established and much anticipated date in the rum calendar - release of the new Hampden Great House! 2022 being the 4th rum in...
Dec 3, 20223 min read
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Madeira Rum pt2 - The distilleries and bars
Following on from my overview article about Madeira Island and its incredible rum history (here), today I'm going to provide little...
Nov 8, 20227 min read
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Madeira Rum - the most important rum article you'll read this year - pt1
Madeira - the most important place in the history of rum...!?!? In 1426, just 7 years after the island was discovered, decades before...
Nov 5, 20225 min read
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Caroni from 1997 & 1998 reviewed
Ahhh Caroni. Once a major contributor to the British Navy's Rum Blends, the legendary Trinidad based distillery sadly closed its doors...
Oct 14, 20225 min read
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Foursquare LFT and Habitation Velier friends
LFT - Long Fermentation Type. A new, super unique, highly anticipated, likely unobtainable 2022 release from Foursquare (and Habitation...
Oct 7, 20224 min read
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Extreme rum tasting - wish me luck!
... and now for something completely different! These hairbrained rums sit at the very extremes of the global rum spectrum. In fact,...
Oct 2, 20225 min read
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Velier Magnum Series Review - Elliot Erwitt
Well the buzz words are all there ... Velier, limited edition, bigger bottles! But do these recent releases contain juice that warrants...
Oct 1, 20225 min read
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Best Ever Clarendon Rum - ultimate taste off
Following on from my epic Clarendon/Monymusk tasting article last year (here) - I'm stepping things up another level! Today I'm...
Aug 20, 20226 min read
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Foursquare Isonomy Rum Review
Today, a quick 'trip' to the beautiful island of Barbados. To review the 20th release of Foursquare's multi award winning and hugely...
Jul 24, 20223 min read
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Antigua High Ester Rum Battle
Column stilled, molasses based rums from English Harbour distillery on the beautiful island of Antigua. High ester, high congener - what?...
Jul 17, 20224 min read
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Velier Pagos & Papalin Review
Velier Pagos and Papalin rum review Hampden Worthy Park
Jul 16, 20223 min read
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Takamaka - Single Casks - a world first !!
Another visit to the beautiful Seychelles. With rather more trepidation that before... Back in January you might remember that I...
Jun 26, 20225 min read
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