Naga Double Cask Aged Indonesia Rum – Review

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Nov 262020
 
Naga Double Cask Aged Indonesia Rum - Review

The Naga double-cask aged rum is part of the company’s standard lineup without any fancy whistles and bells, and when you nose it, you get a sensory impression both hauntingly familiar and obscurely strange. Even dialled-down and wispy as it is, it reminds one of chocolate, very ripe dark cherries, Fanta, sweet caramel, bonbons, and delicate perfumed flowers; and it’s the extras beneath all that which add piquancy and puzzlement: white pepper, a foamy Guinness stout, and a gamey, meaty smell which is fortunately quite faint.  The rum, bottled at 40%, exists outside the comforting confines of the Caribbean and [Click here for the full review…]


Velier Diamond / Versailles (SVSG) 18 Year Old Rum – Review

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Nov 232020
 
Velier Diamond / Versailles (SVSG) 18 Year Old Rum - Review

Sooner or later in these reviews, I always end up circling back to Velier, and for preference, it’s usually the rums from the Age of the Demeraras.  It’s not that I have anything against the Caronis in their near-infinite variations, the Habitation’s pot still range, or the series of the New Hampdens, Villa Paradisetto or 70th anniversary. And I have a soft spot for even the smaller and more exactingly selected outturns of one-offs like the Courcelles or the Basseterre rums. It’s just that the Demeraras speak to me more, and remind me of the impact a then-relatively-unknown indie bottler [Click here for the full review…]


Samaroli Grenada 1993 22 Year Old Rum – Review

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Nov 192020
 
Samaroli Grenada 1993 22 Year Old Rum - Review

Recently I was observed to be writing more reviews of obscure rums nobody ever hears about (or can get) than the commonly favoured tipple and new releases favoured by the commenterati.  That’s a completely fair thing to say, because I do. Not because I want to be behind the times — I’m gutted I couldn’t try the three new pot-still Appletons from Velier so many people are waxing rhapsodical about, for example —  it’s more a factor of my current location, and inability to travel and the cancellation of the entire 2020 rumfest season. It’s also as a somewhat deliberate [Click here for the full review…]


Island Cane “Red Cane” Rhum Agricole Blanc 53º – Review

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Nov 162020
 
Island Cane "Red Cane" Rhum Agricole Blanc 53º – Review

It’s when you sniff this understated and really quite excellent agricole from Marie Galante that you gain some sense of how well made both it and the green labelled “standard” blanc 50º are.  The Green Label — my term, not theirs — was good and I really liked it, but this one was a few degrees stronger and a few degrees better and makes a good case for both the utilization of specific cane varietals and a single source of origin. Briefly, Rhum Island – a company founded in 2017 – issues rhums which are bottled in Saint Martin (a [Click here for the full review…]


Plugging In To Rum – A Guide To Online Resources

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Nov 112020
 
Plugging In To Rum - A Guide To Online Resources

Introduction More and more resources are coming online even as – or perhaps because – an increasing amount of people, young and old and in between, are coming into rum.  They arrive new, or from some other spirit, and are wont to inquire “Where can I find out about…?”  The questions are always the same and after more than ten years of doing this, I sometimes think I’ve seen them all: What rum do I start with? If I like this, what would you recommend? What’s the sugar thing all about? How much? What’s it worth? Where can I find…? [Click here for the full review…]


Rendsburger Barbados (Rockley Still) 1986 18 Year Old Rum – Review

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Nov 092020
 
Rendsburger Barbados (Rockley Still) 1986 18 Year Old Rum - Review

Rendsburger is one of the last of the great old houses from around Flensburg, that north German / Danish town which once had a near hammerlock on the rum trade in northern Europe and the Baltic. The company is actually located in (guess?) Rendsburg, 66km due south of that famed entrepôt, in which the parent company Kruger has its home; they in turn are a small, family-run whisky and spirits specialist mainly known for being a large whisky auction house and while they have done some releases in the past, they don’t really “do,” and are not known for, rums. [Click here for the full review…]


Reimonenq Vielli 7 YO Grande Reserve Guadeloupe Rhum – Review

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Nov 052020
 
Reimonenq Vielli 7 YO Grande Reserve Guadeloupe Rhum - Review

Reimonenq out of Guadeloupe is not a producer whose rhums I’ve tried much of, and so the initial attack of this Grande Reserve — nuts, nougat, toblerone, vanilla ice cream and sweet white chocolate — took me somewhat off balance.  The Vielli was a rhum aged 7 years, so I expected a bit of agricole-ness mixed up with more traditional aged olfactory components, not something like that, not right off. But there they were, clogging up my nose.  And that wasn’t all – the dourness of the opening was followed by stuff that was a lot more sprightly – dried [Click here for the full review…]


Island Cane Rhum Agricole Blanc 50º – Review

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Nov 022020
 
Island Cane Rhum Agricole Blanc 50º - Review

There are quite a few interesting (some would say strange) things about the Rhum Island / Island Cane brand, and the white rums in their portfolio.  For one thing, the rhums are bottled in Saint Martin, only the second island in the Caribbean where two nations share a border – the Netherlands and France in this case, for both the constituent country of Sint Maarten (south side) and the Collectivité de Saint-Martin (north side) remain a part of the respective colonizing nations, who themselves don’t share a border anywhere else. Secondly, there is neither a sugar or rum making industry [Click here for the full review…]


Rum Nation Guatemala Rum Gran Reserva – Review

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Oct 292020
 
Rum Nation Guatemala Rum Gran Reserva - Review

Aside from Zacapa, Botran is the other big rum name we know which comes out of Guatemala.  Both have lost some of their lustre in the last years (though probably not their sales), the former for its sweetness, the latter because it got left behind by the fast moving indie world and cask strength ethos that gradually took over the top end. That certainly did not stop Rum Nation though, because they happily took some of the distillate from Botran’s Destiladora del Alcoholes y Rones SA (also known as DARSA) and aged it for around four years (minimum) in the [Click here for the full review…]


A1710 La Perle “Brute” Parcellaire White Rhum – Review

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Oct 262020
 
A1710 La Perle "Brute" Parcellaire White Rhum - Review

It doesn’t say so, but A1710’s rhum “Brute,” stuffed into a bottle at a rip snorting 66%, is another example of a mini-terroire called a parcellaire – a single small section of an estate, like, oh the UF30E or the similar A1710 54.5% edition that was also issued in the year this was, 2017.  There are a few of these micro-terroire rhums floating around and while still uncommon, do show an interesting new direction for the rum world.  Though, for obvious reasons I don’t see them as becoming mass market products any time soon – more like exactingly made small [Click here for the full review…]


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