Stade’s White Rum (E.S.A. Field, Barbados 1980s/1990s)

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Aug 142018
 
Stade's White Rum (E.S.A. Field, Barbados 1980s/1990s)

Rumaniacs Review #081 | 0538 In Barbados, back in the early 1900s, distillers and bottlers were by a 1906 law, separate, and since the distilleries couldn’t bottle rum, many spirits shops and merchants did — Martin Doorly, E.S.A. Field and R.L. Seale were examples of this in action. On the other side, in the early 1900s a pair of immigrant German brothers, the Stades, set up the West Indies Rum Refinery (now known as WIRD) and all distillate from there carried the mark of their name. In 1909 Mr Edward Samuel Allison Field established E.S.A. Field as a trading company in [Click here for the full review…]


Don Papa Rare Cask Rum – Review

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Aug 122018
 
Don Papa Rare Cask Rum - Review

Given my despite and disdain for the overhyped, oversold and over-sugared spiced-alcoholic waters that were the Phillipine Don Papa 7YO and 10YO, you’d be within your rights to ask if I either had a screw loose or was a glutton for punishment, for going ahead and trying this one. Maybe both, I’d answer, but come on, gotta give each rum a break on its own merits, right? If we only write about stuff we like or know is good, then we’re not pushing the boundaries of discovery very much now, are we? All this sounds nice, but part of the [Click here for the full review…]


Appleton Estate “Joy” Anniversary Blend 25 Year Old – Review

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Aug 082018
 
Appleton Estate "Joy" Anniversary Blend 25 Year Old - Review

You will rarely find two rums of the same age from the same island more unalike than the Samaroli 1992 25 YO and the Appleton “Joy” Anniversary Blend.  One is a fierce, cask strength rum, tightly focused, furiously tasty, with a complexity and balance that nearly broke my chart.  The other is a blended rum brought into being utilizing every ounce of more than two decades of experience which Joy Spence, Appleton’s Master Blender, brings to the the table.  And yet, under the bare statistics that ostensibly set them apart, in both there run the blood and bones of a Jamaican [Click here for the full review…]


Samaroli Jamaican 1992-2017 25 Year Old Rum – Review

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Aug 062018
 
Samaroli Jamaican 1992-2017 25 Year Old Rum - Review

There’s a story I heard years ago, that of the many rums from his company, Silvano Samaroli’s own personal favourite was one of the first ones he bottled, the West Indies 1948.  Who am I to rain on a story like that, speaking as it does of a man currently residing in the Great Distillery in the Sky, and a rum from so far back in time that most of us weren’t even a twinkle in our Daddy’s eyes, made when the world was an utterly different place?  But for my money, of all the rums I’ve tried from this [Click here for the full review…]


The El Dorado 15 YO “Wine Finished” Series – Summing Up

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Aug 032018
 
The El Dorado 15 YO "Wine Finished" Series - Summing Up

Over the years, there has developed a sort of clear understanding of what the El Dorado 15 YO is, deriving from the wooden stills that make up its core profile – that tastes are well known, consistently made and the rum is famed for that specific reason. Therefore, the reasoning for expanding the range in 2016 to include a series of finished versions of the 15YO remains unclear.  DDL may have felt they might capitalize on the fashion to have multiple finishes of beloved rums, or dipping their toes into the waters already colonized by others with double or multiple [Click here for the full review…]


El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Sauternes Finish) – Review

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Aug 032018
 
El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Sauternes Finish) - Review

This is the sixth and last short form review of the six “finished” variations of the 15 year old El Dorado rums.  Because they’re all based on the standard 15 year old which is very well known, I’ll be briefer than usual in my descriptions, rather than provide an essay in each case.  Tomorrow I’ll wrap them all up with a summary and such observations as seem relevant. The rums were all tasted together, blind, in a four-hour session, using the original (retasted) El Dorado 15 with a non-blind score of 82, as a control baseline.  All point scores relate [Click here for the full review…]


El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Madeira Sweet Finish) – Review

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Aug 022018
 
El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Madeira Sweet Finish) - Review

This is the fifth short form review of the six “finished” variations of the 15 year old El Dorado rums.  Because they’re all based on the standard 15 year old which is very well known, I’ll be briefer than usual in my descriptions, rather than provide an essay in each case; and then wrap them all up with a summary on the last day. The rums were all tasted together, blind, in a four-hour session, using the original (retasted) El Dorado 15 with a non-blind score of 82, as a control baseline.  All point scores relate to that rum. As [Click here for the full review…]


El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Madeira Dry Finish) – Review

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Aug 012018
 
El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Madeira Dry Finish) - Review

This is the fourth short form review of the six “finished” variations of the 15 year old El Dorado rums.  The 15 year old is the core of it all, and so I’ll be briefer than usual in my descriptions, rather than provide an essay in each case; and then wrap them all up with a summary on the last day. The rums were all tasted together, blind, in a four-hour session, using the original (retasted) El Dorado 15 with a non-blind score of 82, as a control baseline.  All point scores relate to that rum. As for all these [Click here for the full review…]


El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (White Port Finish) – Review

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Jul 312018
 
El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (White Port Finish) - Review

This is the third short form review of the six “finished” variations of the 15 year old El Dorado rums.  Because the basic information is similar in general – the original 15 year old is the core of it all, of course – I’ll be briefer than usual in my descriptions, rather than provide an essay in each case; and then wrap them all up with a summary on the last day. The rums were all tasted together, blind, in a four-hour session, using the original (retasted) El Dorado 15 with a non-blind score of 82, as a control baseline.  [Click here for the full review…]


El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Ruby Port Finish) – Review

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Jul 302018
 
El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum (Ruby Port Finish) - Review

This is the second quick look of the six “finished” variations of the 15 year old El Dorado rums.  Because the basic information is similar in general – the original 15 year old is the core of it all, of course – I’ll use the short form to describe them rather than an essay in each case, and then wrap them all up with a summary on the last day. The rums were all tasted together, blind, in a four-hour session, using the original (retasted) El Dorado 15 with a non-blind score of 82, as a control baseline.  All point [Click here for the full review…]


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