Engenhos do Norte

A very bad and tacky picture, I know, but since they call Madeira the “flower island”… Engenhos do Norte is located in Porto da Cruz in the north of Madeira, whose mill is one of the three old mills operating on the island. Built in 1927 as the result of the merger of about fifty…

O Reizinho

We are back with Rum. Yak was nice, but come on, this is what you came for, right!? Today we have a very young and likeable distillery, O Reizinho. While the O Reizinho distillery has been registered officially in 2013 on Madeira, it is actually a much older than that. In fact, the Ferreira family…

Rum Around the World – ‘Exotics’

The most exotic rum I’ve reviewed so far was probably the Inverroche 7YO from South Africa. As I have had it in a blind-tasting, I had absolutely no clue where to put that one. Similarily, I’ve also tasted quite a few rums from Japan and especially Germany, which I’d put in this very same category….