Ron Montero is a rum producer from Motril, Spain. Ron Montero Gran Reserva is the premium end of their regular line up of rums. They also released a “Super Premium” rum to celebrate 50 years of rum making the “Ron Francisco Montero”.
In 1963 the Ron Montero distillery was founded by the Montero-Martin family. The family had been cultivating sugar cane for three generations. Finally the owner Don Francisco Montero-Martin decided to produce rum.
Coruba White Rum. They are a brand of rum with mixed origins. Coruba Dark is popular and widely available in the US and New Zealand. Coruba are a Jamaican rum brand (the rum used is understood to come from Appleton Estate).
The brand itself also seems to have some Swiss roots. It is for the US market owned by Campari. Coruba have a number of young “mixing” style rums in their portfolio. They have also branched out into the cheaper flavoured market.
Cadenhead’s FSPD is another Cask Strength bottling from in their Dated Distillation range. This time hailing from the South Pacific Distillery, Fiji.
To date I haven’t tried a lot of rum from Fiji. The only Fijian rum reviewed thus far have been Independently bottled from Berrys’ and Ultimatum. The Berrys’ rum was considerably younger than this one at only 8 years old. The Ultimatum more similar in terms of age, at 12 years old.
Foursquare Rum Distillery Triptych. Another collaboration between Velier and Foursquare. Definitely not an independent bottling. Don’t let Richard hear you saying otherwise!
Released in the guise of a “regular” Velier bottling rather than the Habitation Velier label, this is a follow up if you like to last years Foursquare 2006.
Arnisser No7 Jamaica Rum is an independently bottled rum from Worthy Park Distillery. Arnisser hails from Germany (I think) and they have their own website.
They have bottled a number of rums as well as their own Gin and Brandy. They bottle their rum in 200ml and 500ml bottles. This 6 Year Old rum from Worthy Park was distilled in 2010. Retail price for a 500ml bottle is 26 euros. Which is very competitive. I like the idea of the 200ml bottles as well. That is a good amount of rum to try and the price is also very keen.
Habitation Velier Forsyths WP 2005 is another intrigingly named bottling from Luca Gargano and Co. Releases under the Habitation Velier moniker are coming out thick and fast. Already a 2006 WP is available to buy. With that in mind I thought I best get a review of this out quick before it sells out completely.
Introduction
I’ve been asked a few times recently why I’m not supporting the Gargano Rum Classification. By support, I assume people are wondering why I haven’t featured the classification on the site? Or why I haven’t adopted it in my reviews?
Fact is, I have for a long time tried whenever possible to find out how the rum in my bottle has been produced. Which is exactly what the Gargano Rum Classification involves. Though I haven’t “come out” in favour quite as enthusiastically or as quickly as some, the more information disclosed the better in my book.
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