I remember that I wasn’t a huge Bally fan when I started my Rum journey and that didn’t really change until the brand started releasing the first couple of full proof Rums, most notably the 1998 and 1999 vintages. Those two absolutely blew me away, as did the 2000 by Corman Collins andnthe more recent…
Category: J.Bally
J.Bally 2006
We only have a smaller tasting session today but I think it should be a rather nice one as we have a slightly younger, reduced J.Bally from 2006 and the older full proof version today. J.Bally 2006 12YO (43%): Nose: Very intense and you wouldn’t think that we are dealing with only 43% here! I…
J.Bally 2000
Oh how I wish that more bottlers would do vintage bottlings like J.Bally, for example. And then we even get the luxury of being able to compare the official releases with an independent bottling. Just the way we like it. J.Bally 2000 (43%): This is a release from their “standard” vintage series and as you…
J.Bally vintages
Actually I wanted to write an article about the Cologne Spirits 2019 but there we’ve done a great cross-tasting including many old J.Bally vintages which I don’t want to withhold from you. I am not a fan of the Bally standard-range but their recent full proof bottlings (1998, 1999 and 2000) are among the best agricoles…