Tahiti

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…

Rarity/ Antiquity/ Obscurity Blind-Tasting

Between June and July I took part in a very special blind-tasting organised by Niki, which he fittingly labeled “Rarity/ Antiquity/ Obscurity Tasting”. Niki is known for collecting DDR-rums but apparently many other interesting, old and odd bottlings have amassed in his cabinet over the years. All we’ve got to know beforehand is that none…