Rum travel hints and tips from the incredible island of Jamaica

Calvados aged in rum barrels. What's not to like. Four of the best reviewed side by side

Panama rums - all thin and dull? Think again

A monster high ester mark ... a monster tasting. 8 outstanding Hampden C<>H - it's a knockout!! (hope not literally) Starting the year...

Sugar House distillery - Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish rum I hear you say? Well apparently they know a little something about distilling...

What an amazing year - this year I have reviewed a quite astonishing 110 rums from 16 different countries!! That fact alone really...

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...

All 5 Madeira distilleries, a cracking bottle from each, how do they measure up? The third article in our Madeira series. The first...

A firmly established and much anticipated date in the rum calendar - release of the new Hampden Great House! 2022 being the 4th rum in...

Following on from my overview article about Madeira Island and its incredible rum history (here), today I'm going to provide little...

Madeira - the most important place in the history of rum...!?!? In 1426, just 7 years after the island was discovered, decades before...

Ahhh Caroni. Once a major contributor to the British Navy's Rum Blends, the legendary Trinidad based distillery sadly closed its doors...

LFT - Long Fermentation Type. A new, super unique, highly anticipated, likely unobtainable 2022 release from Foursquare (and Habitation...

... and now for something completely different! These hairbrained rums sit at the very extremes of the global rum spectrum. In fact,...

Well the buzz words are all there ... Velier, limited edition, bigger bottles! But do these recent releases contain juice that warrants...

Following on from my epic Clarendon/Monymusk tasting article last year (here) - I'm stepping things up another level! Today I'm...

Time to review a couple of interesting rums from Nine Leaves in Japan. The Nine Leaves micro distillery was founded in Otsu Shiga in 2013...

Père Labat or father Labat is a rhum brand of the Poisson distillery in Marie Galante. A small picturesque island off the coast of...