Renegade Jamaica 2000 8 Year Old Rum – Review

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Jan 252010
 
Renegade Jamaica 2000 8 Year Old Rum - Review

First posted 25 January 2010 on Liquorature. (#008)(Unscored) *** The Renegade line of rums is as clear a statement as any, that packaging sells: their bottles are so curiously different that one is almost compelled to take a closer look when one sees them on the shelves…and having seen, the itch to go spend some cash becomes an incessant feeling that must be assuaged. Or so I felt when I first saw them: that frosted glass bottle with the rich copper-bronze liquid swirling heavily within just makes me burn to blow some bucks, honestly. And it wasn’t a poor purchase [Click here for the full review…]


Flor de Caña Centenario 18 Year Old Rum – Review

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Jan 252010
 
Flor de Caña Centenario 18 Year Old Rum - Review

First posted 25 January 2010 on Liquorature. (#007)(Unscored) *** Memory fails as to who introduced me to this Nicaraguan gem. I have a feeling it was Dougie from the office when he went down there. I was initially a bit doubtful, but since I was trying to scare up some good stuff for the first non-whiskey night of Liquorature, which thus far had been exclusively a Scottish binge, I felt it was necessary to pull out the stops: I had already bought the Appleton Master’s Blend and the Zaya, and this one’s price point fell somewhere in between. The oldest [Click here for the full review…]


D’Aguiar’s XM 5 Year Old Rum (1990s blend) – Review

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Jan 252010
 
D'Aguiar's XM 5 Year Old Rum (1990s blend) - Review

First posted 25 January 2010 on Liquorature. Full disclosure: this review is based on rum made (and drunk) 1995 and earlier and retasted in the 2000s in a social setting. The review is more a nostalgia essay with such memories as I retained and wanted to share, of one of the formative rums of my youth, than a true review (#006 / Unscored) *** When I was living in the Old Country, this baby was the rum I drank every Friday for a decade straight (or more) without fail, and on quite a few days in between. My evenings tended [Click here for the full review…]


Cadenhead’s Classic Green Label Rum – Review

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Jan 192010
 
Cadenhead's Classic Green Label Rum - Review

  First posted January 19th, 2010 on Liquorature. It looks like a rum and occasionally smells like one, but it sure doesn’t always feel like one; Cadenhead’s policy of making the Classic without any additives or subsequent filtering gives it a less voluptuous body than the average and an overall whisky character that only a psychologist could unravel. Decent drink for those who like a little danger and seeing how rums can go to the edge, though. *** This is as strange a rum as I’ve ever had, and was a selection of the November 2009 gathering, where nothing but [Click here for the full review…]


Zaya 12 Year Old Rum – Review

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Jan 192010
 
Zaya 12 Year Old Rum - Review

First posted 19th January 2010 on Liquorature. (#002)(Unscored) Surprisingly similar to the Zacapa 23…silky, sweet, smooth, supple, and a great drink by itself. *** This review is being written in January 2010 (and amended again in April), but we actually had this phenomenal rum for the first time in April 2009, the first time I hosted the Club. A nippy night as I recall, and iconoclastic as always, I obstinately refused to get whisky, and loudly blared to all and sundry that it would be a rum night (and so started a peculiar tradition of Liquorature, which is that the [Click here for the full review…]


English Harbour 1981 25 Year Old Rum – Review

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Jan 022010
 
English Harbour 1981 25 Year Old Rum - Review

This was for me, for many years, one of the top five commercially available rums in the world. Not to be missed, even for the price. Four stars, triple A, I don’t care what you call it, this thing is simply awesome. First posted on Liquorature, January 2010. After gathering a ton of notes on rums from all points if the compass for most of 2009, it seemed appropriate to begin my official rum reviews with what is arguably the best – and the second-most expensive – rum I’ve ever tasted to this point in January 2010. Now I cheerfully admit [Click here for the full review…]


Welcome to The Lone Caner

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Jan 012010
 
Welcome to The Lone Caner

The Lone Caner originated in a book and spirits club called Liquorature, of which the Caner is a founding member. This site is geared towards rum reviews that people (hopefully) stop over to check out, before dropping big bucks on sterling products.  Or minor bucks on so-so products.  Or maybe just to read something interesting. That is, after all, how it all started, and it’s been a long, fascinating journey with no end in sight. For more information, see the “About” tab at the top of this page. Have fun, and enjoy. Share this… Facebook Threads Twitter Bluesky Reddit Messenger [Click here for the full review…]


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