Rum Reviews
Rum Review #119: Plantation Fiji 2009
Review #118: Plantation 5 Year
Plantation hails from the island of Barbados the earliest rum producing region in the world. Today, Barbados is home to four rum distilleries: Mount Gay, the world’s oldest active rum company, West Indies Rum Distillery, Foursquare, and St. Nicholas Abbey. …
Review #107: Black Tot Finest Carribean Rum
We attended a virtual scotch tasting the other day, organized by Impex Beverages, Scotch Club of San Francisco, and Elixir Distillers. It was everything a whisky nerd heart dreams about. Our guide was Oliver Chilton, who works for both …
Review #91: Plantation Single Cask 2 Guatemala XO Review
Review #90: Plantation Single Cask Barbados XO Amburana Finish Review
A few months back, we did a vertical tasting of Plantation, featuring six single-cask expressions from the French bottler. We tasted blind and took notes in two different notebooks, then compared notes at the end. The Plantation single cask Barbados …
Review #89: DOK 1489 Trelawny (Hampden) Review
Review #88: Samaroli Jamaica Rhapsody
Review #84: Plantation Trinidad 1997
Review #85: Habitation Velier Hampden 2011 Rum Review
Habitation Velier has been starting to bring some new, aged Jamaican rums to the states and we couldn’t be happier. They have rolled out a line of age statement, no added sugar, no bullshit rums from some major distilleries in …