I can almost feel the condemnation as I write. A review of another of Diageo’s Captain Morgan offerings. However, before you do so, please note this is a white rum not one of the many Spiced Variants which have given the Captain such a bad name in recent years.
A White Rum from the Captain Morgan brand has been available on and off for some time. Dependent on the territories you have visited and/or your geographical location and time spent enjoying rum, you may have come across a White Captain rum in the past.
Brugal have made a concerted effort to break into the UK market over the past couple of years. The rum has been re-branded and has even found itself in one or two of the nations supermarkets. The rum is imported into the UK by The Erdington Group based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Banks 5 Island Blend Rum hails from the hotbed of rum producers – Singapore. It is bottled by the Joseph Banks Rums Corporation PTE, Ltd. I’m not sure who Joseph Banks is but I bet there is a story behind him somewhere…….
Chairman’s Reserve White Label is the latest white rum up for review. Regular readers will be aware of my fondness for the regular Chairman’s Reserve and other offerings from the excellent St Lucia Distillers.
An El Dorado Demerara White Rum aged for at least 3 years in oak casks, then double filtered through natural charcoal to remove the colour. This pretty much rounds off my El Dorado collection. The 3,5,12,15 and 21 have now been reviewed. Time will tell if any of the Single Cask, Spiced or Overproof offerings ever get a review. Time and Geography anyway as if I could actually get certain El Dorado rums I wouldn’t hesitate…..
Plantation 3 Stars is a white rum from the French based bottling giant Plantation . The name is coined from the 3 “stars” of the Caribbean from which the rum is obtained. Namely Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad. As with most of the Plantation rums there is no age statement.