The first aged Renegades today! I cannot help it but oh boy, I can’t wait to taste them. Fortunately for us, they feature familiar estates, so we do have some sort of reference point for these Rums. Renegade Études New Bacolet (55%): From Upper Combe. Nose: This smells very sweet and young, almost like an…
Category: Grenada
Renegade Pre-Casks
A lot has been written about Renegade already and you can easily read about it elsewhere. Let’s just try to sum up the most important key points here: terroir driven cane juice Rum everything from seed to bottle is fully controlled by Renegade instead of buying an existent Rum distillery, it seemed to be more…
River Antoine
Today we will do something we haven’t done in a long time: We will taste only a single rum. The reason is trivial though: I just don’t have a suitable companion. Grenada’s River Antoine is one of those few mysterious rum distilleries – but not because there isn’t enough information on them, no, it is…
Westerhall vertical
We don’t get many rums from Grenada and most of them, while not bad, are frankly quite dull. Perhaps that perception changes with the recent 25YO single cask by Rum Artesanal; I don’t think there has ever been such an old rum from the island. Our exercise today is twofold: First, I try to find out…
Single Cask Rum 