Category: Mauritius

  • 5-Star Rums of 2022!

    5-Star Rums of 2022!

    My 5-Star Rums of the Year! This past year I purchased or sampled well over 100 rums, reviewed 30 of those, of which I gave eight a 5-star rating, indicating I enjoyed it enough to want a back up bottle. For the sake of this list, I’m only including rums that were new to me…

  • Holmes Cay Mauritius 2005 Grays 15 Year – 50%

    Holmes Cay Mauritius 2005 Grays 15 Year – 50%

    Holmes Cay Mauritius 2005 Grays 15 Year – 50% Stats: Independent bottling of a 2005 column distillate from Grays Distilling LTD in Pamplemousses, Mauritius, part of East Africa in the Indian Ocean. It aged for 15 years in ex-Cognac casks in tropical weather and was bottled at 50% ABV with no additives. This was a private…

  • XXX/Six Mauritius 9 Year Old 2010 – 67.2%

    XXX/Six Mauritius 9 Year Old 2010 – 67.2%

    Source: Acquired in a trade. Stats: Agricole style rum distilled in Mauritius (Indian Ocean island nation) on a column still using cane juice. It was aged in oak casks in Mauritius from 2010 to 2018, then shipped to England where it spent ~2 more years in an ex-Bourbon cask, yielding 260 bottles at 67.2% ABV…