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Background: I came across this yesterday, while browsing a brick-and-mortar shop. It was my first time seeing a Velier Foursquare in the flesh,...
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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. ...
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Background: an old Guyana rum from the acclaimed independent bottler, Compagnie des Indes, more affectionately known as CDI. Serge suggested th...
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Background: I was looking at an online store selling colheitas when I came across this. Turns out they have a decent rum selection too. Pulled ...
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Background: I figured it is time to start reviewing the white rums I have. It just seems natural to review a white Port Mourant as a follow-up ...
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Background: the “lesser Skeldon”. This is one bottling that will forever live in the shadows of its big brothers, the Velier 1973 and 1978 Skel...
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Introduction: The Auld Alliance very recently put up a tasting set of six samples, one for each Silver Seal rum release this year. Three of the...
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Background: so I joined a local rum group recently, and got to trade some samples with people inside. This is one of the first samples I bought...
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Background: a mystery sample from /u/soberlytipsy. He told me it is a rum, and it is not from a place totally unfamiliar to me. Here, “a place”...
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Background: from a single cask selected by LMDW. Grand aromes are rums rich in esters, giving them perfume-like qualities. Think of them as the...
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Background: there are multiple 19-year-old single cask bottlings by Kill Devil from the 1998 Bellevue vintage. Going by a.b.v. is one way of di...
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Background: another one of those reviews with short titles. Really, Foursquare OBs are the only rums of which age I don’t bother to indicate ...
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