Yet another Demerara rum with a very British twist to it. Along with brands such as Lambs, OVD and Skipper us Brit’s certainly do seem to enjoy importing dark Guyanese rums and bottling them up for public consumption.
The rum comes in normal bar style bottle with a label which is old fashioned and in similar ilk to that of Skipper. The makers of these rum’s certainly don’t seem to be going for the younger sexy end of the market.
I 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!).
“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.
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”.
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Ahh Mount Gay that “hilariously” named rum that often leads to a myriad of puerile double entendres and unfunny jokes. Staple of Airport Duty Free’s and increasingly more and more present on the supermarket shelves in the UK. More often than not discounted by a few pounds from its £18 price tag.
After 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.