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Mocambo Single Barrel 15 Years

Mocambo 15 Year old Rum Review Single BarrelProduced in Mexico by Licores Veracruz.  The rum is bottled in small quantities and aged in white oak barrels (ex bourbon).  There is more information on the bottle. Unfortunately other than the attached label it is all in Spanish!

Licores Veracruz have been trading as a going concern for 55 years but have only been exporting their products for 11 of those years.  The Mocambo brand is imported into the United Kingdom by WSI LTD (Wine and Spirit International http://www.wineandspirit.com) who seem to import a number of unique products.  The Mocambo 15 years is marketed as a premium rum. Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Ron Espero Reserva Exclusiva

Ron Espero Reserva Exclusiva Rum ReviewRon Espero – which roughly translates to “Rum of Hope” hails from the Dominican Republic and is bottled in Panama.  They have a fairly uninspiring English language website and the rum is imported into Europe by Haromex Development GmbH.

The website has only been going since 2013.  I’ve no doubt they’ve been producing rum for longer than that.  I think that this may well be the first English language review of any of their rums.  Online the rum seems to be getting widely ignored. Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Pyrat Rum XO Reserve

Pyrat XO Rum ReviewI don’t know what the sales of this rum are like worldwide. However, I’ve seen it stocked in a few high end hotels over here in the UK and a good few wine merchants carry it.

However, it hasn’t quite hit Aldi over here yet and I suspect it never will!

If Patron did indeed “add” the infamous orange flavour to this rum then as a marketing strategy it would seem to have worked wonders! Notwithstanding Bacardi this rum brand has to the be one of the most talked about rum brands in the world (not bad going consider they only do two rums!). Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Skipper Rum

Skipper Rum Demerara Review Guyana

The best rum in this world” proclaims the 30′s style label.  Finest Old Demerara from Guyana.  This is a blend of 7 dark rums aged in Guyana for at least 3 years.  According to the bottle this is a naval style rum.  This rum (and seemingly the bottle) has been produced since 1930.

I bought this rum on a trip to Sainsburys.  It had  couple of quid off so was £18 rather than £20.  To be honest the bottle is a little uninspiring, which is why I had previously overlooked it.  It’s a standard entry-level metallic screw top bar bottle.  The labelling is a little kitsch but I don’t really think it will be doing its sales much good. Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Angostura 1919 Premium Rum

Angostura 1919 rum review A premium rum from Angostura (of Angostura Bitters fame) from the home Dwight Yorke. 1919 is the year this blend of rum was first casked.  The rum is aged 8 years in (what else) ex Bourbon barrels.  The bottle states that they believe it “will be the smoothest rum you have ever tasted with notes of oak, cocoa and vanilla”. Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Ron Abuelo Anejo 7 Years Anos

Abuelo Anejo 7 Anos Rum Review PanamaAfter noticing the “Ron De Jeremy” Panamanian rum whilst browsing on Amazon, I felt the need to try a Panamanian rum.  There are only so many Bajan, Jamaican or Demerara rums you can try before you think they all taste fairly similar and you aren’t really getting anything different for your money. Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Plantation Original Dark Rum – Overproof

Plantation Original Dark Rum Trinidad Review

I was originally going to get a bottle of Goslings Black Seal 151 rum (I’ve seen tried it in a miniature) but I noticed that one of the online stockists seemed to have made a mistake in pricing this (getting it mixed up with the Underpoof version I suspect) and thus I picked this up for £20 rather than around £33.  I love a bargain me! Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

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