Tag: Rum

  • Foursquare Criterion Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark V – 56%

    Foursquare Criterion Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark V – 56%

    Foursquare Criterion Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark V – 56% Stats: This was the fifth release from the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series. It was distilled, blended, and aged in Barbados for 10 years in both ex-bourbon and ex-madeira casks before being blended and bottled without sugar or flavor additives at 56% ABV.…

  • Foursquare Zinfandel Cask Blend – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark IV – 43%

    Foursquare Zinfandel Cask Blend – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark IV – 43%

    Foursquare Zinfandel Cask Blend – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark IV – 43% Stats: This was the fourth release from the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series. It was distilled, blended, and aged in Barbados for 11 years in both ex-bourbon and ex-zinfandel casks before being blended and bottled without sugar or flavor additives at 43% ABV. It…

  • Foursquare 2004 Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark III – 59%

    Foursquare 2004 Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark III – 59%

    Foursquare 2004 Single Blended Rum – Exceptional Cask Selection Mark III – 59% Stats: This was the third release from the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series. It was distilled, blended, and aged in Barbados for 11 years in ex-bourbon casks before being bottled without sugar or flavor additives at 59% ABV (Full Proof). It is a…

  • Foursquare Port Cask Finish – Exceptional Cask Series Mark II – 40%

    Foursquare Port Cask Finish – Exceptional Cask Series Mark II – 40%

    Foursquare Port Cask Finish – Exceptional Cask Series Mark II – 40%Stats: This was the second release from the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series, and the first one I ever purchased. It was distilled, blended, and aged in Barbados for three years in ex-bourbon casks followed by six more years in ex-port casks before being bottled…

  • Golden Devil Jamaica (Hampden) 12 Year Single Cask

    Golden Devil Jamaica (Hampden) 12 Year Single Cask

    Stats: K&L Wines Exclusive Single Cask pick under the Golden Devil label of a 12 year, continentally aged Hampden Estate C<>H marque (1300-1400 esters), bottled at 64.1% ABV, with only 290 bottles produced. Nose: Delightful fruit bouquet… fresh pineapple, mango, and banana, not of the typical rotting or overripe funk variety, but more of a…

  • Chairman’s Reserve (St Lucia Distillers) Master’s Selection – Lei Low Pick

    Chairman’s Reserve (St Lucia Distillers) Master’s Selection – Lei Low Pick

    Source: Sample provided by friend. Stats: Blend of John Dore 1 and Vendome pot stills aged 13 years in ex-Bourbon barrels in the tropics, bottled at 56.3% ABV. Nose: Butterscotch, clove, black pepper, tire shop, rubber raft, soy sauce, seaweed Mouth: Cinnamon, band-aid, cough syrup, brown sugar, prune, wet soil, menthol, spearmint. Has a very…

  • Le Galion Grande Arome 58.32%

    Le Galion Grande Arome 58.32%

    Source: Acquired in a trade. Stats: A Grande Aroma from Le Galion, Martinique’s only distillery still making molasses-based rhum. Bottled at 58.32% by Aficionados for Fine Drams in a run of 600 bottles, it clocks a whopping 481.7 g/hLAA esters. Nose: Off the bat, heavy dose of nail polish remover. Varnish. Paint thinner. Some underlying…

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

    XXX/Six Mauritius 9 Year Old 2010 – 67.2%

    Source: Acquired in a trade. Stats: This cane juice rum was distilled in Mauritius (Indian Ocean island nation) on a column still, 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 without filtering, coloring,…