Rum Reviews

  From the funky Boutique-y Records series released in 2021 came the Barbados Secret Distillery No.7, and while the good folks at @boutiqueyrum w...

  After having had a number of rather hard-hitting rums in recent times, I thought it’d be a refreshing change to explore rums from other regions...

  Following on the theme of Caroni rums, this bottle from @cormancollins was a rather unique one that I had the pleasure of tasting at @theauldal...

  @boutiqueyrum is no stranger to Caroni rums, having released at least 12 different bottlings since they started. Batch 8 was the first that I t...

  The second of @distilia_ rums that I had the privilege of tasting was one from their new Floral Rum series - the Caroni 1998 Chaconia exclusive...

  The Greenheart collection is a series of old demerara rums bottled by @distilia_ that were distilled from the late 1980s till the early 90s. Th...

  This review of @dead_reckoning_rum’s highly anticipated bottling of a two-years-and-five-months-old @mhoba_rum was long overdue, one that I sho...

  This was my maiden visit to @thewritingclubsg on the occasion of a special @valinchandmallet tasting, where we were treated to an excellent lin...

  The last rum review of 2022 leads me back to one from the final chapter of the age of @velierspa’s demerara rums - the Diamond & Port Moura...

  In the last of the “special tastings, I take a look at, and of course a taste of, @rhums_neisson’s Nonaginta, dedicated to the 90th anniversary...

  After the Caroni 1996 Guyana Blended Paradise #1, it was only natural to taste the second bottling of the Paradise range too - the Caroni 1998 ...

  @whiskylivesingapore was a pretty hectic affair, having squeezed all my various rum samplings into one Sunday afternoon. Yet there were some ve...