Cadenhead’s BMC Epris Distillery is another offering from the Scottish Independent bottler. More famous for their numerous whisky bottlings Cadenhead’s regularly release rums. Many are your usual Demerara and Bajan offerings but they also bottle rum from more exotic locations such as Belize, Nicaragua and with this offering Brasil.
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Plantation Single Cask Barbados 12 Years Wild Cherry Finish is a bottling relelased exclusively for Coq D’Argent. Coq D’Argent is a bar/restaurant in London near the Bank district of the city.
I was fortunate enough to be able to pick up a bottle of this from the Plantation stand that was part of the travelling UK Rum Festivals this year. It was priced at £35.
Worst Ten Rums is probably an article a lot of you have been expecting for a while. In fairness it has been in the pipeline a long time. With around 300 reviews in the bag, I thought it might be useful to look back and see which rums I truly hated.
You see a lot of the rum I have reviewed I have found to be pretty mediocre. Maybe I could compile a list of the Ten most boring rums as well? When all is said and done, not that many rums have truly offended me or surprised me. Often I’ve bought cheaply and pretty much got what I paid for.
St Abbs Six Spice Rum is as the title suggests another Spiced rum to be added to the already very crowded segment of the market. St Abbs currently have three rums in their range. The trademark Captain’s Table XO, Cask Silver (a white rum) and this their Six Spice Spiced Rum.
St Abbs Six Spices used the Cask Silver as its base rum. It is then infused with six different spices and a dollop of blackstrap molasses. Giving colour and a bit of depth. The six spiced used in the blend are Ginger, Vanilla, Clove, Black Pepper, Cinnamon and Star Anise.
Bounty Rum is something of a staple rum in its homeland the island of Saint Lucia. Finding a bottle of this rum become something of an obsession for the completist in me. I’ve always had a soft spot for Saint Lucia Distilers (SLD) and I’ve wanted to try this rum for a long time.
Finally I found a bottle at Drinks Supermarket here in the UK. Complete with HMRC customs stamp on the actual label. Suggesting that this was at one point distributed in the UK. Indeed it was imported by the current SLD Importer Emporia Brands. Quite how old this bottle is I’m not sure. I suspect it is stock that Drinks Supermarket stumbled across in their warehouse after forgetting they had the odd bottle.
Cloven Hoof Spiced Rum is made by Guilty Libations, here in the UK in Oxfordshire. Anyone who has attended the various Rum Festivals that have sprung up all around the UK in the past year may be familiar with the brand.
It is hard to miss. Big, bold and very brash! Cloven Hoof Spiced rum is blend of Guyanese and Trini rums. Mixed with (and I quote) “a mysterious concoction of natural spices”. The presentation is almost Heavy Metal. Their website has several “endorsements” from various bands I have never heard of. Nor do I like the look of.
Ron Viejo de Caldas 3 Anos. The rum hails from Colombia. It is produced at Industria Licocera de Caldas. As a result of this quite a lot of the information available online is in Spanish. I’ve tried translating things but the free translation tools are pretty naff. So I’ve cobbled together what I could find in English.