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…
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…
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…