Sainsbury’s Golden Rum is a product of Trinidad and more specifically Angostura. Sainsbury’s have long been stockists of Angostura’s 1919 rum.
This rum is aged for 8 years and is the oldest rum Sainsbury’s currently stocks, excluding the 1919. It’s almost as if Angostura have introduced a direct competitor to the store. Which does seem a bit strange.
Despite the presence of Angostura in the rum and bitters market, it doesn’t seem that their younger rums have caught the imagination.
At least amongst the Rum Reviewing community as I have been unable to find any reviews of this 5 year old rum and only a couple for its older brother the 7 year old. When it comes to Angostura it seems that life for many begins at 1919 and 1824.
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!
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.
Plantation have become multi award winners in recent times and this entry level rum has been one of the companies success stories. The Original Dark is a blend of rums from Trinidad given the unmistakable Plantation treatment. Double ageing and “dosage”.
This rum has recently been re-formulated and re-packaged. It also forms the basis of their much hyped Stiggin’s Fancy which is a Pineapple infused rum which is due for release sometime soon……I haven’t seen anything definite as yet.
Pusser’s relaunched their rums in 2014 to stop all the confusion about the various Blue Labelled rums floating around different parts of the world at varying strengths.
One of the rums that caused the least confusion was this one. Not because the bottle does not immediately make you think it is one of their lower proof rums but because it was and is only available in one country. For some reason our German cousins were not satisfied with a meagre 54.5% ABV rum and demanded more so this 75% ABV expression was launched for the German market only. Thanks to the guys at Beers of Europe I was able to obtain a bottle for £49.99. Which sounds quite expensive but once I’ve explained exactly how this 75% ABV rum SHOULD be drank you will see I wasn’t stung too badly.
Pusser’s “Nelson’s Blood” Aged 15 Years is their marquee expression. I think, (and I will get this all confirmed) that the rum is a different blend to the Blue Label. It is not just a more aged version of it. However, I also understand that despite this it is still a blend of Trini rum with a hefty dose of the famous Port Mourant wooden still distillate.
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