In 2012 following the loss of the rights for Cockspur Rum back in 2010, Blavod Wines and Spirits introduced a new spiced rum to the market – Red Leg Spiced Rum. Please note at this stage the official way to title this rum is to keep the Red and the Leg together (But with the L still capitalised) – RedLeg. However for purposes of people searching the web for this I figured it best to keep it separate on the title etc.
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As Managing Director of the self styled “untouched rum” Neil Mathieson has set the bar high in terms of expectation.
Over the past few years a debate has focused around the practice of adding sugar and other additives during the production of rum. For many such alterations are viewed as entirely unacceptable.
Another try out with a Mezan rum. At these prices it would simply have been rude not to give Mezan a fair crack of the whip. With Mezan trying to do things the “right way” (in many peoples eyes – including their own) I simply had to persevere with their range.
This Panama 1999 is another one of my more unusual purchases. The original idea was to finally try one of Francisco “Don Pancho” Fernandez’s rums. I’d focused on the reasonably priced 7 year old celebrity cash in Ron De Jeremy. Then I saw this Mezan distilled in 1999 and bottled between 2012 and 2014 (I have only seen that around on the net so it may well be wrong I cannot find a definitive age).
Havana Club Maximo. Not a rum I ever envisaged reviewing on the site. Please note the image to the left is taken from the Whisky Exchange blog and is not my photograph. It is purely for illustrative purposes.
I recently got involved in a Twitter Tasting with Havana Club rum. As part of this process I was sent 50ml samples of the four more exclusive/expensive rums in the brands portfolio. Seleccion de Maestros, 15 Year Old, Union and this, the Maximo.
Havana Club Union was the third in a flight of rums I recently had the fortune to try as part of a “Twitter Tasting”.
In 2014 Havana Club updated the presentation of their 15 year old rum. Along with the update of the former Barrel Proof to Seleccion de Maestros and with a new cigar pairing rum to be released, Havana Club were geared to introducing a new range.
That new range was named the Iconica Collection and comprises of Seleccion de Maestros, Havana 15 Year Anos, Union and Maximo. All the rums now come in a sleek bottle along the lines of this one.
The Danish Speaking world has one of the better Rum websites to boast about. With reviews, articles and its own forum Romhatten is impressive and its design is sleek and modern.
A lot of websites could take a lot of pointers from the site. Unfortunately for English speakers such as myself the site doesn’t automatically translate too well from Danish into English. However, with a bit of persistence it is possible to pick up on the meaning of most of Mads’ pieces especially his reviews.