New Grove 2004 Single Barrel 9 YO Mauritius Rum – Review

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Aug 202020
 
New Grove 2004 Single Barrel 9 YO Mauritius Rum - Review

Last time, I was looking at the really quite excellent St. Aubin 10 year old from Mauritius, which was a cane juice, pot-still, decade-old rhum, a type we don’t see very much of – to my memory only the Saint James Coeur de Chauffe comes close, and that wasn’t even aged. St. Aubin certainly seems to like making rums their own way, while New Grove, also from that Indian Ocean island, provides us with rums that seem somewhat more familiar – they flit in profile between El Dorados and Barbadians, I think, with an occasional dash of Worthy Park thrown [Click here for the full review…]


St. Aubin 2003 10 YO Traditional Old Mauritius Rum – Review

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Aug 172020
 
St. Aubin 2003 10 YO Traditional Old Mauritius Rum - Review

Mauritius is another one of those rum producing areas that flits in and out of our collective rumconsciousness, and seems to come up for mention mostly (and only) when a blogger checks out a new indie expression (SBS and Velier spring to mind). Cognoscenti might recall Penny Blue, New Grove, Chamarel or Lazy Dodo rums from the graveyard of reviews past, but honestly, when was the last time you saw one yourself, tried one, or even bought one? St. Aubin is one of the Indian Ocean island distilleries that have been gathering some goodwill of late and should not be [Click here for the full review…]


Santiago de Cuba “Carta Blanca” Cuban White Rum – Review

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Aug 132020
 
Santiago de Cuba "Carta Blanca" Cuban White Rum - Review

There’s a peculiar light yellow lustre to the Santiago de Cuba rum somewhat euphemistically called the Carta Blanca (“White Card”), which is a result, one must assume, of deliberately incomplete filtration. The rum is aged three years in oak casks, so some colour is inevitable, but in anonymous white barroom mixers, that’s usually eliminated by the charcoal used: so whatever colour remains can’t be an accident. It’s likely, in this case, that the makers figured since it was issued at a trembly-kneed sort of please-don’t-hurt-me sub-proof strength, it might be better to leave something behind in case people forgot it [Click here for the full review…]


Pusser’s British Navy “Gunpowder Proof” Rum – Review

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Aug 092020
 
Pusser's British Navy "Gunpowder Proof" Rum - Review

Black Tot day came and went at the end of July with all the usual articles and reviews and happy pictures of people drinking their Navy Rum wannabes. Although it’s become more popular of late (a practice I’m sure rum-selling emporia are happy to encourage), I tend not to pay too much attention to it, since several other countries’ navies discontinued the practice on other days and in other years, so to me it’s just another date. And anyway, seriously, do I really need an excuse to try another rum? Hardly.   However, with the recent release of yet another ‘Tot [Click here for the full review…]


Cadenhead Uitvlugt 1964 36 YO Guyana Rum (PM) – Review

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Aug 052020
 
Cadenhead Uitvlugt 1964 36 YO Guyana Rum (PM) - Review

The Cadenhead 1964 Port Mourant is one of the great unicorns of our time, a rum whose 36 years of ageing sail majestically across the senses, impervious and indifferent to the up-and-coming claimants for the crown of “oldest” and “strongest’ and “bestest” and “mostest”.  Not since the Age of Velier have we seen anything like this and in some ways it supersedes even those behemoths we had all ignored back in the day, because they were “too expensive.” And expensive this is: in June 2020 a variant bottle of this thing (bottled in 2000, 70% ABV) was bid up past [Click here for the full review…]


1423 S.B.S. Versailles 2003 12 Year Old Guyana Rum – Review

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Aug 032020
 
1423 S.B.S. Versailles 2003 12 Year Old Guyana Rum – Review

The three wooden stills now all gathered at DDL’s Diamond facility are called Heritage stills, their wooden greenheart components regularly serviced and replaced, and the questions they pose about the matter of Theseus’s ship are usually ignored. That’s not really important, though, because they may be the three most famous stills in existence, and the taste profiles of the rums they create are known by all dedicated rumistas, who enjoy nothing more than relentlessly analyzing them for the minutest variations and then bickering about it in a never-ending cheerful squabble. My own preference has always been for the stern elegance [Click here for the full review…]


Ron Caribe Añejo Superior 5 Year Old Rum – Review

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Jul 302020
 
Ron Caribe Añejo Superior 5 Year Old Rum - Review

Although the unrealized flashes of interest and originality defining the Mexican Ron Caribe Silver still make it worth a buy, overall I remain at best only mildly impressed with it. Still, given the opportunity, it’s a no-brainer to try the next step up the chain, the 40% ABV standard-strength five year old Añejo Superior. After all, young aged rums tend to be introductions to the higher-end offerings of the company and be the workhorses of the establishment – solid mixing ingredients, occasionally interesting neat pours, and almost always a ladder to the premium segment (the El Dorado 5 and 8 [Click here for the full review…]


Ron Caribe Silver Premium Rum – Review

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Jul 262020
 
Ron Caribe Silver Premium Rum - Review

If you believe the marketing blah (which I don’t) then here we have a nice little white rum made by a small craft company, located in the Yucatan peninsula town of Merida, in Mexico. The premises are built on the remains of an old sugar making hacienda and thirty employees labour diligently to hand prepare every bottle. They probably sing as they do so. I dab a single tear from my eye at such tradition-respecting, old-school rum making.  It warms the cockles of my pickled and cynical old heart, truly. And, the rum is quite nice for what it is [Click here for the full review…]


Habitation Velier Muller LL IV/3177 White Rhum – Review

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Jul 222020
 
Habitation Velier Muller LL IV/3177 White Rhum - Review

By now most will be aware of my admiration for unshaven, uncouth and unbathed white rums that reek and stink up the joint and are about as unforgettable as Mike Tyson’s first fights.  They move well away from the elegant and carefully-nurtured long-aged offerings that command high prices and elicit reverent murmurs of genteel appreciation: that’s simply not on the program for these, which seek to hammer your taste buds into the ground without apology. I drink ‘em neat whenever possible, and while no great cocktail shaker myself, I know they make some mixed drinks that ludicrously tasty. So let’s [Click here for the full review…]


Behind Old Monk Rum – A History of Mohan Meakin (India)

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Jul 192020
 
Behind Old Monk Rum - A History of Mohan Meakin (India)

Introduction One of the rum-producing countries about which we don’t know enough is India, home of companies like Rhea, Amrut, Radico Khaitan, Krimpi, Tilaknagar, McDowell’s (part of Diageo) and the subject of today’s biography, Mohan Meakin. Originally it was to form part of the review of their Old Monk Supreme XXX Vatted Rum, but when I delved into the weeds, the “tale grew in the telling” until it was clear that it deserved a full treatment by itself. The Founders and Early Years The company that eventually became Mohan Meakin was founded by a Scottish businessman named Edward Abraham Dyer. [Click here for the full review…]


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