Rum from Tahiti sounds fany, doesn’t it? So far we’ve only ever had a single Rum from the island, which can hardly be described as “Rum” by our standards. Now there are two more distilleries on the island which produce Rhum from fresh sugar cane juice of an ancestral French Polynesian variety. That’s where my…
Month: August 2023
Port Mourant 1998
The 1998 Port Mourants were one heck of a batch and a prime example of what Uitvlugt was still capable of producing towards the end of its Dasein. It is too bad we didn’t get that many expressions of the vintage but we managed to find a very nice pair of Rums for today’s session….
How W.I.R.D. is this?
W.I.R.D. is one of these distilleries… they’ve produced a few legendary Rums but besides that essentially only interchangable mainstream. I wonder if Plantation, who are in charge of W.I.R.D. now, will change it for the better or if they will bury the distillery and its legacy for good. For now, I have only tasted a…
“Spanish Style” at Random
It doesn’t matter if you agree with the categorization of “Spanish Style” or not, I think you’ll know what this is referring to anyway. We have a couple of Rums hailing from different countries, contemporary and antique, full proof and drinking strength. So here we go. Rum of the World Guatemala 2016 4YO (46%): We…
Long Pond STC<3E
STC<3E is love, or so I thought. Not only because of the heart. Now we didn’t review the first joint Velier & NRJ STC<3E bottling on this blog (we did do that somewhere else, but these notes seem to be gone) but it was great, as was an unaged Rum with this marque. Anyway, there’s…
Single Cask Rum 