White Jack is a rum produced by Westerhall Estate. It is named White Jack as it is actually another celebrity tie in. None other than Jack White of The White Stripes commissioned this White Overproof rum.
Okay that’s a lie but it’s safe to say that when I tried to “Google” some information on White Jack, I got far more results about the Top Hat and Trilby wearing front man of the American Lo-Fi Garage Rock duo than I did about White Jack!
Gold of Mauritius quite a grandiose title and one which certainly sets this rum up as one that really needs to impress! Mauritian rum has come to our attention before we have reviewed two Penny Blue expressions from the Medine Distillery.
Gold of Mauritus offers a slightly different take on rum – but lets not say too much at this point.
French producers Bardinet are behind the Ron Pujol brand nowadays, though the rum has a heritage stretching back to 1818.
Research on the internet has been difficult – the official Ron Pujol website is in Spanish (it’s actually Catalan you ignoramous) and resists any translation.
It would seem that this is perhaps the Spanish version of Negrita? For those not familiar with the brand, Ron Negrita is another of Bardinet’s offerings. It is a mixture of agricole and molasses based r(h)um and is popular and easy to find in both Spain and France. Ron Pujol offers more of a “ron” experience than a “rhum”.
Westerhall Estate Jack Iron Rum is a lightly coloured overproof rum from Grenada.
Distillation of rum at Westerhall Estate no longer takes place. Instead rum is imported from the Angostura Distillery in Trinidad. It is then blended and bottled at what remains of the Westerhall Estate.
The Estate acts more as a bottling plant and visitor centre now. It is sad that so many distilleries no longer produce their own rums but unfortunately like so many smaller distillers – competing with the big hitters is proving increasingly difficult.
Patron’s Pyrat XO Reserve is perhaps one of the most controversial rums on the planet. Derided by many as little more than an orange flavour liqueur it still sells by the bucketload all around the world.
Pyrat XO Reserve offends people on many different levels. Not only does the orange flavour gain criticism from those in hope of a more authentic rum its over the top packaging and garish orange box serves only to fuel people’s ire towards this rum. Then of course is the little matter of the added sugar and the desecrating of what was at one point a very decent rum (when it was called Planter’s Punch and not owned by Patron – this is not my words just want I have noted online so don’t quote me!), which all adds upto it being the Marmite of rum.
Rum-Bar Gold is a barrel aged Jamaican Rum from the Worthy Park Estate. The Estate has been involved in Sugar Production since 1720.
However, due to events described in this interview, I conducted with Alexander Kong they have been absent from the Rum Market until fairly recently.
Back in 2004/5 they set about building a new state of the art distillery in order to begin producing rum again. In 2007 they introduced their White Overproof to the domestic market and have now added a Gold rum and a Rum Cream to their portfolio. In order to help pay for the state of the art distillery Worthy Park have also sold “bulk” rum to other bottlers.
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Duncan Taylor are primarily an Independent Scotch Whisky bottler, whom like Wm Cadenhead also dip their toes in the rum market.