Rum Reviews

   Background: what can we say about vintages in rum? In most regions of rum production, sugarcane is evergreen and can be harvested year-round. ...

  Introduction: I recently discovered the treasure trove that is TheWhiskyBarrel (TWB), an honest, efficient online merchant with exclusive bottl...

  Background: this is a sample I ordered along with a bottle of IB Diamond rum. The 1992 vintage seems like a great one from what I heard, so I h...

  Background: finally, I was allowed to access my office. This is the first of a few bottles I had intended to review before the lockdown. A spec...

  Background: the lockdown has been lifted for close to two months. I was busy with my Master’s thesis, and then with socialising post-lockdown. ...

  @nobilisrum is a relatively new Danish independent bottler that began releasing their first rums in late-2020. They made quite an impression wi...

  Background: I spotted this bottle among the liquor shelves of the Takashimaya departmental store in Namba, Osaka. An IB single-cask Hampden? My...

The 1983 Hampdens are some of the oldest Hampden casks found in the market today, and has been progressively released by a couple of independent b...

Tasting a really great single cask Hampden bottled exclusively for @the_rum_cartel by @lamaisonandvelier with an outturn of 380 bottles. The rum w...

  Just some of the rums from last evening with @the_rum_cartel, including a couple Caronis, Corman Collins’ latest releases, a pair of 2002 dem...

Tasting some of that great Hampden Estate 8 year old 46% at Straits Clan today! I must admit I did not exactly enjoy the rum when I first tried it...

A flight of rums at the Straits Clan.    Nothing beats a rum tasting with @JayMackxny at the Straits Clan, tasting all those gorgeous Caribbean r...