Offerings from Foursquare Distillery this year have been a little like buses. You wait ages then two come along at once!
We’ve really been lucky in the UK this summer. Seeing a limited edition Foursquare Port Cask Finish and at long last, this mythical beast Doorly’s 12 Year Old.
I can almost feel the condemnation as I write. A review of another of Diageo’s Captain Morgan offerings. However, before you do so, please note this is a white rum not one of the many Spiced Variants which have given the Captain such a bad name in recent years.
A White Rum from the Captain Morgan brand has been available on and off for some time. Dependent on the territories you have visited and/or your geographical location and time spent enjoying rum, you may have come across a White Captain rum in the past.
Although this may sound gimmicky, there is a history of Gunpowder and Rum. Not just in the sense that rum had to be “Gunpowder Proof” but also, in that like the recipe for this, Gunpowder was indeed added to rum!
This may sound slightly mad and at times this interview will reveal the slight craziness of its creator BH Simpson. However, as this interview will reveal there is method to his madness.
St Lucia Distillers are famous for producing Chairman’s Reserve, Bounty (mainly for the domestic market) and Admiral Rodney.
1931 is a rum brought onto the market in 2011 to commemorate 80 years of the Dennery Distillery, St Lucia. In 1972 the Dennery and the Roseau Distilleries merged and formed the company we have now, St Lucia Distillers.
Mount Gilboa is a triple distilled Pot Still rum. This in itself is fairly unusual, I think. I’ve heard little about multiple distillation in rum, unlike Vodka for example. That’s not to say it doesn’t occur just that is rarely mentioned. Mount Gilboa is a product of Barbados and from the name and product design you could be mistaken into thinking you are getting a cheaper Mount Gay product or a copycat.
From what I understand Appleton Special isn’t widely available in a lot of territories. It is freely available in the UK though.
Rather than being special as such, it is Appleton’s entry level rum. It comes in both a Gold and White expression. It should be noted that whilst this is an Appleton rum it doesn’t have the Appleton Estate moniker. Yes, its of course from the same distillery but it seems Appleton wish to make a distinction between this and the Estate’s entry level rum – V/X. It is notably absent from the Appleton Estate website and rumours have it that it may be being discontinued. If those rumours are true I may have to invest in a few more bottles soon!
In 1857 a young wine and spirit merchant called Paul Bardinet began blending and ageing the “tafia” (as it was called at the time) or sugar-cane alcohol, which arrived in Limoges, France from the far flung islands of the Caribbean.
Legend goes that Bardinet worked on taming the firewater, which arrived on French shores with various blending and ageing techniques until he was producing something comparable to the Rhum Negrita which is now commonly available across mainland Europe. In particular France and Spain.
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