Jan 11 minWould you like to try my rums of the year?Rum is for drinking. Rum is for sharing. So I'm offering a set of samples of these amazing drams to one of my readers. No catches. No...
Dec 27, 20235 minRum Of The Year 2023What a year. Scarily quick. Scary generally. Personally a milestone year, saying goodbye to our beloved home and basement bar. And a...
Dec 27, 20225 minRum Of The Year - 2022What an amazing year - this year I have reviewed a quite astonishing 110 rums from 16 different countries!! That fact alone really...
Dec 19, 20224 minAged Madeira Rums - quick-fire reviewsFollowing 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 10, 20224 minMadeira Rums - 5 distillery, unaged, head-to-head reviewAll 5 Madeira distilleries, a cracking bottle from each, how do they measure up? The third article in our Madeira series. The first...
Nov 8, 20227 minMadeira Rum pt2 - The distilleries and barsFollowing on from my overview article about Madeira Island and its incredible rum history (here), today I'm going to provide little...
Nov 5, 20225 minMadeira Rum - the most important rum article you'll read this year - pt1Madeira - the most important place in the history of rum...!?!? In 1426, just 7 years after the island was discovered, decades before...
Oct 7, 20224 minFoursquare LFT and Habitation Velier friendsLFT - Long Fermentation Type. A new, super unique, highly anticipated, likely unobtainable 2022 release from Foursquare (and Habitation...
Feb 27, 20224 minPère Labat - 5 rhums reviewedPère Labat or father Labat is a rhum brand of the Poisson distillery in Marie Galante. A small picturesque island off the coast of...
Jul 3, 20215 minThe Big Clairin TastingClairin - a funky, full flavoured style of rum made in Haiti, generally from fresh crushed cane juice. These spirits are made in tiny...