Rum Reviews | Drunken Diplomacy

Plantation rum from Panama, aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon, and finished in ex-Cognac.

Plantation rum from the island of Fiji.ged 7 years in ex-bourbon in the tropics, and 2 years in ex-cognac in

Plantation hails from the island of Barbados the earliest rum producing region in the world. Today, Barbados is home to

We attended a virtual scotch tasting the other day, organized by Impex Beverages, Scotch Club of San Francisco, and Elixir

We tasted six Plantation rums. The Guatemalan expression is finished in Amburana, a South American wood. The dosage was also

A few months back, we did a vertical tasting of Plantation, featuring six single-cask expressions from the French bottler. We

The DOK rum, clocks in with roughly 4X the ester count of Smith and Cross. It's also unaged, and 69%

Samaroli Jamaica Rhapsody is one of those bottles that rum nerds whisper about. For the uninitiated, Samaroli is an independent

Tasting notes from a vertical of six Plantation single cask releases. This was our favorite of the bunch.

Habitation Velier has been starting to bring some new, aged Jamaican rums to the states and we couldn't be happier.

Peru-distilled rum finished in Pineau des Charentes. Part of a set of blind-tastings of Plantation rums.

Review #72: Black Tot Rum

Drinking the last rum ration allocated for the British Imperial navy

I love Cadenhead. It was the first place I stopped off in England. I not only made a purposeful detour

It's always fun to try interesting cask finished rums, although with the exception of Foursquare, I can't say that I've

Dunder, for scotch drinkers, is slightly analogous to the rum-world equivalent of peat. Except instead of moss, it is a

We have been on a (very slow) quest to hit 300 rums each. We talked to the couple (actually in

Review #57: Caroni 17

Full bodied, independent bottling of navy-style rum from Caroni, long-closed distillery on Trinidad.

Review of a new Worthy Park bottle from independent Italian bottler Velier.

Independent bottling of a high ester Jamaican rum.

Mildly aged rum from Foursquare distillery in Barbados. Tastes like an aged vodka.

Ancient Jamaican rum from a long lost distillery.

Blackberry lost in Jerez.

Not saccharine but also uninteresting.