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Review
The crown jewel of Jamaica's most celebrated distillery — twenty-one years of tropical ageing have produced a rum of ext...
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Joe Whitfield
April 30, 2026
Review
Puerto Rico's favourite white rum — outselling Bacardi on its home island, Don Q Cristal is a clean, versatile spirit wi...
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April 30, 2026
Review
Old Fashioned Traditional Dark — a collaborative overproof blend created with some of the world's best bartenders that d...
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April 30, 2026
Review
A spiced rum that starts with genuinely excellent rum — Chairman's Reserve Spiced from Saint Lucia adds Caribbean botani...
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Ash Carrington
April 30, 2026
Review
Pure Jamaican pot still power — Hampden Estate's 60% overproof is an unaged expression that delivers the distillery's le...
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April 23, 2026
Review
Venezuela's other great rum — a solera-aged expression from the country's oldest private estate that delivers refined el...
Read more Ash Carrington
April 23, 2026
From production methods to tasting technique, everything you need to know about aged rum — the spirit that is converting whisky drinkers and rewriting...
David Thornton
December 1, 2025
A practical guide to the flavours, aromas, and textures you will encounter in rum — from the caramel and vanilla of aged expressions to the funky este...
David Thornton
November 20, 2025
The Daiquiri, the Mai Tai, the Rum Old Fashioned, the Dark and Stormy, and the Mojito — five essential rum cocktails, explained by someone who has mad...
David Thornton
October 30, 2025
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Cocktail
Cuba's forgotten classic — white rum stirred with dry vermouth, orange curaçao, and a whisper of grenadine. A cocktail o...
David Thornton
January 15, 2026
Cocktail
One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak — the oldest rum recipe in the world, encoded in a rhyme that h...
David Thornton
January 10, 2026
Cocktail
Three kinds of rum, falernum, lime, and grenadine — the Zombie is tiki culture's most potent and legendary cocktail. Two...
David Thornton
January 5, 2026
Cocktail
Born on Bourbon Street during World War II, the Hurricane is New Orleans' most famous rum cocktail — dark rum, passion f...
David Thornton
December 20, 2025
Cocktail
The Old Fashioned template — spirit, sugar, bitters, water — works beautifully with aged rum. Warm, complex, and deeply ...
David Thornton
December 15, 2025
Cocktail
Puerto Rico's national drink and the taste of every beach holiday you have ever taken. Made properly with real coconut c...
David Thornton
December 10, 2025
News
The Barbadian distillery has claimed the top honour at the ISC for its Exceptional Cask Selection 2010, beating over 1,7...
Bishop Mercer
February 27, 2026
News
The legendary Jamaican distillery has opened its doors to the public for the first time in its 270-year history, with a ...
Bishop Mercer
February 15, 2026
News
The inaugural Caribbean Rum Festival will take place in Barbados this November, bringing together 50 distilleries from a...
Bishop Mercer
February 1, 2026
News
New data from the IWSR confirms the global rum market surpassed £15 billion in annual sales in 2025 — with the premium-a...
Bishop Mercer
January 15, 2026
News
A record 1,840 rums from 42 countries were entered in the 2026 World Rum Awards, with Jamaica, Guyana, and Martinique do...
Bishop Mercer
January 8, 2026
News
Guyana has submitted a nomination to UNESCO to recognise Demerara Distillers' collection of heritage wooden and metal st...
Bishop Mercer
December 20, 2025
Article
Three ingredients, infinite variations — the Daiquiri is the cocktail that proved rum could be elegant, and its story is...
Walter Graves
April 30, 2026
Article
Love it or loathe it, the intense "funk" of Jamaican rum is one of the most distinctive flavour profiles in the spirits ...
Walter Graves
April 23, 2026
Article
For over three hundred years, the Royal Navy issued a daily rum ration to every sailor — a tradition that shaped the rum...
Walter Graves
April 16, 2026
Article
In the Caribbean heat, rum barrels lose spirit at two to three times the rate of Scotch whisky — and this dramatic evapo...
Walter Graves
April 9, 2026
Article
The still is the beating heart of every distillery — and the choice between pot and column fundamentally shapes the char...
Walter Graves
April 2, 2026
Article
Long before Jamaica, Cuba, or Guyana entered the conversation, Barbados was distilling rum — and its claim to be the spi...
Walter Graves
March 26, 2026
