La Favorite hailing from Martinique will be a familiar name to those of you who enjoy French Rhum or Agricole Rhum as it is more commonly known.
Agricole Rhum (agricultural rum) differs from Molasses based rum in that it is produced from Sugar Cane Juice rather than molasses. You may also have heard of a spirits called Cachaca which is made from Sugar Cane Juice. I’m not entirely sure what the difference is but other than in Brasil Agricole Rhum is much more popular. Molasses based rum in contract to “agricole” rum can be called “industrial” rum. I’m sure you can understand why most rum producers don’t opt to categorise their rum in such a way!
Berry’s Bros & Rudd (BBR for short) is London’s oldest and one of its most respected wine and spirits merchants. They have traded from the same shop in St James Street since 1698.
Plantation Rum should need little introduction. Part of Cognac Ferrand, they finish and/or age rum they procure from all around the globe in cognac and other wine casks.
J Wray and Nephew’s White Overproof Rum is highly acclaimed and widely available just about everywhere.
Ron Zacapa XO is the “super premium” addition to the regular Ron Zacapa range. There are many others yearly variations on the rum but this one along with the Sistema Solera 23 has been available for a number of years now.
There were a couple of rumours going round the internet last year that Old Monk Rum was going out of production, It appears those rumours were false. Still I felt it was about time that I published my review of Old Monk Supreme.
On the 14th January 2016 Demerara Distillers Limited announced their first foray into the world of Cask Strength bottlings. Except they didn’t, well not directly anyway.