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Kirk and Sweeney

An unexpectedly smooth beauty This is an amazing sipping rum, great neat or with a single ice cube to open up the flavors. There was minimal cask taste until the very back end, but

Kirk and Sweeney

Really good (but the 23 is better) Fantastic on the nose, with the vanilla scent coming through. Front end heat gives way to a very smooth sipper. I recommend letting your bottle air ou

Queen Charlotte's Reserve

NC Rum better than 90% of Caribbean Rums I've tried (who knew?) Picked up/consumed a bottle of this beauty while on vacation in OBX last week. It was so smooth that I grabbed another on the way out of town. Smooth

Captain Morgan 1671

Pleasant Surprise I’m not a real “regular” Captain Morgan fan, but will occasionally have a Captain and Coke when I’m out. I went to my local package store to buy my re

Mount Gay XO The Peat Smoke Expression

Top notch With just a few drops of water or a very small ice cube, this rum opens up to a very unique, complex hit of peat which gently cascades into the taste

Havana Club Selección de Maestros

Great but Strong I picked up a bottle of this in the duty free shop in the Dominican Republic on the way home. It was much stronger than I expected when I tried it nea

Kirk and Sweeney

Excellent, but the 18 & 23 are far better So so smooth as a sipper. Smooth almost to the point of being too new. You’re better off with their other two offerings, and if you’ve tried them all

The perfect cocktail rum Not really a sipper (at all), but this white rum just makes for an incredibly smooth mixed drink. I always ask anyone who is going to Aruba to bring m

Brinley Gold Shipwreck Vanilla

Sweet! My initial thought was that it was syrupy and extremely sweet, but I ended up coming around and really enjoying it. Easy sipper on the rocks. A little

Excellent mixing rum Lighter than I expected. Brilliant rum for a Cuba Libre. Didn’t like it neat, but on the rocks was ok. Underwhelming as a sipper. I’d buy it again, b

Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale

Not bad, but nothing special I was out looking for a good sipper but my local stores were all inexplicably out of anything good so I took a chance on this one based on reviews and

Flor de Caña Gran Reserva 90 Proof

I expected better Not great. I ended up using the bottle in blended drinks at a summer pool party after unpleasantly forcing back a rocks glass neat (after first a spla

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