Dzama Rhum Vieux Aged 3 Years. Dzama are a brand of rums from Madagascar, pronounced “Zama” it was founded in 1980 by Lucien Fohine. Groupe Vidzar is the controlling company. Domestically it accounts for around 60% of all rum sales and operates out of the countries capital Anatananarivo. (You learn quite a bit researching rum)
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Dictador Distillery Icon Reserve Aged 20 Years Solera System Rum. Quite a mouthful but thats what they’ve put on the label. Quite how Aged 20 Years and “Solera System Rum” works is anyones guess, however.
Dictador are a rum brand from Colombia. They also have lines of coffee, cigars and gin. I’ve not been around the rum scene for that long but Dictador 12 was one of the first “premium” rums I bought. I reviewed it in the early days of this blog. As was one of the aims of this blog I have learnt a great deal about rum since then. I won’t revisit that review until I have completed this one. I don’t recall being blown away by Dictador 12 though.
Old Jamaique Long Pond 1977. A rum older than me – just. From the Long Pond Distillery in Jamaica. A distillery which I have become increasingly interested in, over the past year or so.
Old Jamaique is a collaboration between Scottish bottling giant Ian MacLeod and the Belgian Independent bottler Corman-Collins.
Bacardi Reserva Limitada has long been Bacardi’s most “Premium” offering. As seems to be the way with “Premium” rum producers rather than do anything remotely interesting, different or innovative they tend to just re-hash the same old thing. Repeating the same things which initially gave them success. Which kind of becomes a bit boring.
Ultimatum Sancti Spiritus 1999 Cuban Rum. Ultimatum are a relatively new bottler. Most of their products are coming out of Dutch retailers so I assume they are based somewhere around there. Ultimatum Rum seems to be an off-shoot of the Little Distiller.
They have released a number of bottlings over the past year or so (I have a few more yet to review) and have received generally positive feedback for their efforts. The first thing they have been commended on is the price. They are very reasonably priced.
Silver Seal Dennery Superior St Lucian Rum. The use of the “Dennery Distillery” on this bottling (and others) by Silver Seal has caused quite a lot of consternation from those currently involved at St Lucia Distillers. Dennery is a completely different site to where the only St Lucian rum producer – St Lucia Distillers are now housed.
Neptune is a new rum brand from the UK. Unsurprisingly whilst the brand is from the UK the actual rum is not. Neptune Golden Rum is a 3 year old rum from Barbados. The rum is actually from Foursquare distillery. Effectively what we are getting here is a “gold” version of Doorly’s iconic three year old white rum. Kind of.