Oak barrels at Bielle distillery in Marie-Galante. Nothing to do with the article, just a great day at an awesome distillery Experiment...

Rum travel hints and tips from the incredible island of Jamaica

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

What a year. Scarily quick. Scary generally. Personally a milestone year, saying goodbye to our beloved home and basement bar. And a...

Clairin (or Kleren) - the artisan sugar cane spirit of Haiti. Made by over 500 tiny agricultural producers across the island, this unaged...

The stand-out rums from 4 previous tastings - it's going to be fascinating pitching these side by side today to see how they fare....

For my final set of new rums in this Guyana series, we have four more Port Mourants. Three of these were majority (80%+) 'continentally...

Following my comprehensive El Dorado Rare Collection reviews (here and here), I'm going to stick with Guyana for a few more articles....

Covenant - release 23 of the Exceptional Cask Series from Foursquare distillery in Barbados. Another year on, another Foursquare...

Exciting doesn't come near ... it's time for my champion to be decided! Following last weekend's comprehensive run down of the full Rare...

A very special review this weekend of these iconic, limited release, Guyanese rums. Tasting reviews are obviously subjective, however [as...

A quick 1hr ferry back from dreamy Marie Galante to Pointe-à-Pitre and we're ready for part 2 of my Guadeloupe rum travels blog. If you...

What a dream trip. 2 weeks in Carribean rhum heaven. It would be a travesty not to share what I learned and experienced. Getting there -...

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...