Smatt’s Silver Jamaican Rum – Review

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Sep 272020
 
Smatt's Silver Jamaican Rum - Review

It’s peculiar how little information there is on Smatt’s that isn’t all razzamatazz and overhyped positive posturing meant to move cases. Almost nobody has written anything of consequence about it, there’s no review of credibility out there, while the product website is a cringeworthy mass of spouting verbiage long on gushing praise and short on anything we might actually want to know. When you’re relegated to furtively checking out Rumratings and Difford’s to at least see what drinkers are saying, well, you know you’ve got an issue.   Smatt is, according to those sources I’ve managed to check, a small-batch, boutique, [Click here for the full review…]


Skotlander V (1400 sømil) Danish Rum – Review

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Sep 222020
 
Skotlander V (1400 sømil) Danish Rum - Review

Let’s start at the beginning.  Skotlander rum is not made in Scotland, but in Denmark, for the very good reason that the founder, Anders Skotlander, is a Dane with the name. Denmark has long been known (to me, at any rate) as home of some of the most rum-crazy people in Europe, and Anders decided to walk the walk by actually creating some of his own, in 2013. He purchased a Müller copper pot still, sourced sugar cane molasses and in 2014 released 1000 bottles of RUM I, a white, at 40%. It promptly won a gold medal at the [Click here for the full review…]


Compagnie des Indes Dominican Republic 2000-2016 15 YO Rum – Review

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Sep 212020
 
Compagnie des Indes Dominican Republic 2000-2016 15 YO Rum - Review

One of the interesting things about the Compagnie des Indes Dominican Republic rum we’re looking at today, is that we don’t often see rums from the half island go into anything except a mild standard strength blend.  It’s rare to see a single cask version and even rarer at this kind of power – 64.9%. Here is a rum that at that level of oomph had to be a special edition for Denmark only (see other notes), probably because nobody back in the day wanted to take a chance on a rum and a country not known for individualistic excess [Click here for the full review…]


Savanna Cuvée Maison Blanche 2005 10YO Rum – Review

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Sep 172020
 
Savanna Cuvée Maison Blanche 2005 10YO Rum - Review

Savanna’s 2005 Cuvée Maison Blanche 10 Year Old rum, in production since 2008 is a companion to the 2005 10 YO Traditionnel and a somewhat lesser version of the superb 2006 10YO HERR issued a year later, and that one, you will remember, blew my socks off back when I tried it.  Going strictly  by the numbers, it hardly seems to be very different from the various traditionnel (i.e., molasses based) rums that are released with great regularity by the distillery.  But actually, these “White House” 10 YO rums date back to when the 1998 edition was first released as [Click here for the full review…]


Savanna Lontan Grand Arôme Unaged White Rum – Review

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Sep 142020
 
Savanna Lontan Grand Arôme Unaged White Rum - Review

It’s perhaps unfair that only with the emergence of the 2016 HERR 10 YO and the LMDW 60th Anniversary white in the same year, that the distillery of Savanna on Reunion began to pick up some serious street cred. I think it’s one of those under-the-radar distilleries that produces some of the best rums in the world, but it always and only seems to be some special limited edition like the Cuvee Maison Blanche, or a “serious” third party bottling (e.g. from Habitation Velier, Rum Nation or Wild Parrot) that gets people’s ears to prick up.  And it’s then that [Click here for the full review…]


Watson’s Trawler Rum – Review

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Sep 102020
 
Watson's Trawler Rum - Review

It’s been many years since the first of those blended dark-coloured UK supermarket rums dating back decades crossed my path – back then I was writing for Liquorature, had not yet picked up the handle of “The ‘Caner”, and this site was years in the future.  Yet even now I recall how much I enjoyed Robert Watson’s Demerara Rum, and I compared it positively with my private tippling indulgence of the day, the Canada-made Young’s Old Sam blend — and remembered them both when writing about the Wood’s 100 and Cabot Tower rums. All of these channelled some whiff of [Click here for the full review…]


Cadenhead Green Label 25 Year Old Guyana Rum – Review

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Sep 072020
 
Cadenhead Green Label 25 Year Old Guyana Rum - Review

Cadenhead just refuses to depart the rum scene, which is probably a good thing for us.  We see rums too rarely from Berry Bros & Rudd, Gordon & MacPhail or AD Rattray, who were among the first introductions many of us ever had to fullproof single cask rums (even if they were sadly misguided whisky bottlers who didn’t know where or what the good stuff truly was). And there’s Cadenhead, persistently truckin’ away, releasing a bit here and a bit there, a blend or a single cask, and their juice goes up slowly but steadily in value (e.g. the fabled [Click here for the full review…]


Key Rums of the World – The Habitation Velier Series

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Sep 022020
 
Key Rums of the World - The Habitation Velier Series

As the memories of the seminal and ground breaking Demeraras fade and the Caronis climb in price past the point of reason, and the smaller outturns of Velier’s limited editions vanish from our sight, it is good to remember the third major series of rums that Velier has initiated, which somehow does not get all the appreciation and publicity so attendant on the others, or climb in price so rapidly on secondary markets.   This is the Habitation Velier collection, which to my mind has real potential of joining the pantheon of Caronis and those near-legendary Guyanese rums which are so [Click here for the full review…]


St. Lucia Distillers “1931” 4º Edition Rum (2014)

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Aug 302020
 
St. Lucia Distillers “1931” 4º Edition Rum (2014)

Rumaniacs Review #120 | 0757 Each of the 1931 series has some sort of tweak, a point of uniqueness or interest, to make it stand out. The first two, in my estimation at least, were fairly conservative pot-column blending experiments (but very well done). The Third Edition added some sugar to a blend of all four stills and upped the complexity some. By the time they got to 2014, it was clear there was a gleeful maniac running free and unsupervised in the blending area, and he used a bit of just about everything he had in the lab (including [Click here for the full review…]


St. Lucia Distillers “1931” 3º Edition Rum (2013)

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Aug 262020
 
St. Lucia Distillers “1931” 3º Edition Rum (2013)

Rumaniacs Review #119 | 0756 It’s important that we keep in mind the characteristics and backstories of these St. Lucian rums, even if they were discontinued within the memory of just about everyone reading this.  And that’s because I feel that before we turn around twice, another ten years will have passed and it’ll be 2030, and sure as anything, someone new to rum will pipe up and ask “What were they?” And I don’t want us all to mourn and bewail, then, the fact that nobody ever took notes or wrote sh*t down just because “wuz jus’ de odder [Click here for the full review…]


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