We’re back with another pair of rums. This time we are having two Damoiseaus from 1980. I don’t know why but these days I am not really in the mood for these larger sessions that I usually do. We do have plenty of intersting duos and trios to bridge the gap to the usual format…
Month: April 2020
Port Mourant 1993
They say tropical ageing is about two to three times as fast as continental ageing. Today we have a wee battle between a relatively younger, tropically aged Port Mourant and one that has been ageing for essentially twice as long in the UK. The only other 1993 Port Mourant I am aware of is the…
Grays (New Grove)
According to Wikipedia, the distillery was created in 1931, when Harel Frères bought the Mauritius OK Distillery. In 1939, with the difficulties of the WW2, the island had problems importing petroleum products and the distillery produced fuel as a substitute. The plant was later renovated to produce rum and other spirits and in 1980 a…
Bellevue/ Belvedere (Damoiseau) 1998 encore
There are just so many rums from this batch out there, we just had to do another session. And before the questions start to appear again, yes, these are all from Damoiseau! Cadenhead’s Bellevue “GMBV” 1998 16YO (57,1%): We start with a slightly older bottling. GMBV is a typical Main mark by the way. I…
Port Mourant 1990
Happy Easter! I feel like we should have done a Happy Ester tasting but let’s safe that for some other time and stop at Port Mourant again. We never do get fed up with it, do we!? James MacArtuhr’s Port Mourant 1990 (50%): Unfortunately we know neither the age nor the bottling date of this one…
HSE
Is this really our first HSE session!? Oh my… Today it is distilled at Le Simon, which dates back to 1862 and has been dubbed the “ghostwriter distillery” by several people since they a) are not open to the public and b) do not produce rhum under their own name. Habitation Saint-Étienne (HSE) had to…
April’s Fool 2020: “Señor Popo”
After months, perhaps even years, of searching I’ve finally found a rum collector in Panama City who not only has the entire, incredibly rare, range of Señor Popo, but who was also willing to send over some samples. If you are a frequent reader of this blog, I won’t have to tell you how rare…
Single Cask Rum 