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Helena Tiare

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El Dorado 2002 Versailles

El Dorado 2002 Versailles Very good rum and how El Dorado should be, without added sugar and with a great punch!

Caroni 2000 Millennium 15-year

Caroni 2000 Millennium Maybe my favorite rum of all... to me it`s perfection. It`s just lovely and it`s pure rum. No added sugar or other things.

Clairin 2015 Casimir Batch 1

Fantastic and very special It`s not a rum for everyone, it`s an aquired taste but...worth trying! it is a very special rum with so much flavors that it´s a real flavor bomb! too

El Dorado 1999 Port Mourant

El Dorado 1999 Port Mourant This is how I think El Dorado rums should be, no sugar added! and a good punch!

St. Nicholas Abbey 12-year

A top shelf rum! The 12 yo is nothing but fantastic, it has deep flavors and so good it should be reserved for sipping but if you mix with it, make sure you chose a ty

Velier 1990 Uitvlugt

Outstanding One of the demeraras from the independent bottler Velier, great body and intesity. Totally demerara rum heaven. Uitvlugt is the name of the famous dis

St. Nicholas Abbey 15-year

Simply amazing! I got to try this one at the UK Rumfest in 2013, and if the 12 is amazing, well then this one is just priceless...one of the absolutely best rums i ev

Foursquare 2013 Released by Velier 2-year

Habitation Velier 2013 Foursquare Nirvana in a bottle... and it`s pure rum,no added sugar or other nonsense.

El Dorado 1993 Enmore

El Dorado 1993 Enmore Great rum, so full of flavor, just like the other two in the same series. This is how El Dorado should be, without added sugar and high strength punch

Caroni Trinidad 17-year

Caroni Trinidad 17-Year Fantastic! incredibly flavorful with a great punch! pure rum and just perfect.

St. Nicholas Abbey White

St. Nicholas Abbey White Rum Very pleasant rum and for mixing it`s perfect but it`s just as good for sipping. I would say it´s a very good all-round white rum that got it´s own pe

La Bella Cabresse Rhum Agricole Blanc

Very good The rhum agricoles from french Guyana is a bit different from those of Martinique or Guadeloupe, they have a sort of earthiness of their own. La Belle

Lemon Hart 151 This is the quintessential floater in tiki drinks! no other rum can replace it, except maybe for some of Velier`s or Silver Seal`s heavier demeraras.

St. Nicholas Abbey 5-year

St. Nicholas Abbey 5-Year Rum: Exceptionally well balanced and the same soft velvety character that was in the nose comes forth here too. It`s rich, warm, welcoming with notes of to

St. Nicholas Abbey 10-year

Fantastic rum! St Nicholas Abbey rums are some of the best in the world in my opinion. The 10 yo is awesome with extremely well balanced flavors, full bodied and smo

Black Tot Royal Navy

Extremely long finish I had the occasion to taste a little of this but a little was enough, it`s an explosion of flavors, dark fruits, leather, wood, tropical fruit mash, c

La Favorite La Flibuste

La Favorite La Flibuste Great rhum agricole, very complex and mature. Awesome sipper!

Saint James Hors d'Age 6-year

Wonderful rhum This St James is the classic rhum used in Mai Tai`s together with Appleton Extra. It was the rum combo Trader Vic started to use when the 17 year old

Saint James Reserve Privee 12-year

Great rhum agricole A very good agricole, full of flavor and smooth, easy to sip and makes a great punch vieux.

Rhum JM VSOP 4-year

Great agricole I like Rhum JM and this one is a great sipper, and also for a good punch vieux. Lots of flavor and smooth.

Barbancourt Reserve du Domaine 15-year

Great agricole rum! This is a special and great agricole rum, different from the rest. Has some spiciness and nuttiness to it. Makes good punch vieux and other cocktails

RL Seale 10-year

A good rum Nice sipper and the bottle is quite fun, looks to me like a seal stretching up to catch a fish...A genuine rum, real Bajan flavor, no nonsense and no

Good rum This is the Bacardi to get if you want to have a great sipping and mixing rum. Forget about the white one called "superior" and buy this one instead.

Clement Creole Shrubb

Great product Great product, can be used to sub orange liqueur in cocktails, it´s great in a Mai Tai for example.

El Dorado ICBU Single Barrel

Great rum These single barrels are great stuff, from the old stills which are unique in this world. It´s rum for demerara geeks and connaisseurs.

El Dorado EHP Single Barrel

Flavorful I find this rum flavorful and fruity, i like it a lot.

Mount Gay Black Barrel

Great value Flavorful rum, great to sip and mix!

A great cahcaca This is a very tasty cachaca, smooth, buttery, with a bit of the typical earthy and a bit grassy flavor which in cachaca is different from rhum agrico

Love this one! This is a very good cachaca, and it´s not over filtered to kill the flavors and transform it into vodka...it`s smooth, creamy, buttery, earthy and a b

Old New Orleans Cajun Spice

Fantastic This rum is nothing but fantastic and unusual with it´s cayenne flavor. Half of this with half ED15 yo makes for a very nice sipper...

Chairman's Reserve Spiced

An excellent spiced rum I love this one, it´s not that many spiced rums that picks my interest but this one is really good. It got lots of flavor and quite a bit of clove, it

Smith and Cross Navy Strength

Smith and Cross This a great mixing rum! it´s strong and it´s full of funky flavors. It boosts up any cocktail and is of course one of the staples in the tiki drink w

Wray & Nephew White Overproof

JWray Overproof One of the best overproof rums out there! despite it´s "kerosene" flavor....this is good stuff! it`s incredibly versatile too, if you google on use in

Appleton Estate Extra 12-year

Appleton Extra One of the quintessential rums for tiki drinks and it´s one of the rums in the classic Mai Tai combo, Appleton Extra and St James Hors d`age or other

Pusser's Overproof

Pusser`s Overproof Here´s a great overproof rum to float in cocktails! it has flavor and punch! tastes to me like a strong version of the blue label Pusser`s minus the a

Rhum JM Blanc 50

Good for ti punch This is perfect for ti punch! and as most rhum agricoles, mixes perfectly well in tiki drinks.

Appleton Estate 21-year

Appleton 21 A fine sipper, that is what it is...

Blackwell Black Gold Special Reserve

Mixing rum Tried this one at Blackwell`s Rum and Reggae party in New Orleans 2 years ago and i find it makes great rum punches and dark n stormy`s, also good in

Angostura 1824 12-year

A great rum This is a good sipper!

XM Royal Gold 10-year

A great tasting rum This rum is so yummy! so flavorful, caramel and toffee, wood, vanilla, tropical fruits.

Great rum! A balanced, flavorful and complex rum. Good for both sipping and mixing. At the UK Rumfest in 2012 they mixed it with Ting (Jamaican grapefruit bevera

Castries Peanut Rum Creme

Yummy This is one of those kinds i don`t drink too often but when i do i really enjoy...drink as is with a little ice or mix a coffee-type of cocktail.

Don Q Gran Anejo

Smooth sipper I find this rum a smooth sipper but doesn`t have the heaviness that i prefer in rums, but it´s a typical PR style rum, a bit lighter but not a bad one

Cruzan Black Strap

Tiki drink essential This molasses flavored thick flavored rum is best for tiki drinks and in tiki drinks it´s fantastic.

Cruzan Single Barrel

Great for cocktails I like this rum as a mixer, it´s flavorful and mixed in tropical and tiki drinks it shines.

Santa Teresa 1796

A nice rum It´s a nice rum but it doesn`t knock my socks off:-)

Cockspur 12-year

Cockspur VSOP 12-Year Makes lovely rum punch! Best to use for cocktails I think rather than sip it.

Santa Teresa Rhum Orange Liqueur

Good mixer The orange flavor is exquisite in this one and it can be used as a mixer in cocktails with good results.

Taylor’s Velvet Falernum

Great mixer for tiki drinks Falernum is a must in many tiki drinks and even though the very best and most vibrantly flavored falernum is homemade, this one is a good option.

Wood's 100 Old Navy

Great for tiki drinks This rum is famous for mixing good tiki drinks and rightly so, it adds that punch the drinks needs. Strong and flavorful.

Lemon Hart Original 1804

Good for tiki drinks and tropical rum drinks This is a great rum for tiki drinks and tropical rum cocktails! An old classic...but not as great as the 151...not as much of a sipper as it`s a mixin

El Dorado 5-year

Great mixer and sipper Good value for the money! it both sips and mixes well.

Good starter A good cachaca to start with, it´s smooth and makes good caipirinhas.

The Scarlet Ibis Gold

Special This rum is special because it´s a bit harsh and at the same time it`s an important component in certain tiki drinks giving the drink a funk and it mi

Elements 8 Platinum

Flavorful and delicate This rum got very nice flavors but is very delicate thus leaving it to sip or make daiquiris with (or other simple cocktails where the rum is allowed

Elements 8 Gold

Flavorful It`s good to sip and mix with, it got flavor and is smooth.

Plantation Barbados 5-year

A great rum A nice sipping rum and also a nice mixer even though a bit too mild for tiki drinks but for a daiquiri it´s good. Mild, sweet, vanilla...and smooth.

Dillon Blanc 55

Dillon Here`s another lively rhum agricole, great for ti-punch and in tiki drinks!

Coruba Original

Tiki drink essential One of the classic tiki drink rums, one you just need to have, it mixes well with most things and adds a robust dark flavor.

La Mauny Blanc 50

Great stuff! This one have been used a lot in tiki bars especially in London and it does mix well in that type of drinks. It goes very well with pineapple juice a

Clement VSOP 4-year

A great agricole rhum A well balanced rhum agricole, with the typical grassy notes. I love to use it mixed in tiki drinks! and the occasional punch vieux.

Doorly's XO 6-year

Doorly`s XO A good sipper and a bargain for what you get. Typical Barbados rum and it`s real. What I lack is a bit more "punch".

Ron Zacapa 23 Solera

Zacapa 23 A smooth and sweet rum, perfect to introduce people to rum...it´s balanced, sweet and smooth.

Havana Club 7-year

Havana Club 7 yo This has been one of my "always on the shelf" rums for years. It`s quite light but still does have enough flavor and it`s to me a mixing rum rather th

Lemon Hart 151 Yellow Label

Lemon Hart Rum This is a great rum for tiki drinks and tropical rum cocktails! An old classic...but not as great as the 151...not as much of a sipper as it`s a mixin

Coruba 12 One of the rums i`ve been using in tiki drinks and it works well, it´s a bit less punchy than the original Coruba but it mixes well. Supposed to be a

Ti punch! Lots of flavors here, and great for a ti punch!

Appleton Estate Reserve 8-year

Appleton 8 yo Another good mixing rum but the 12 yo is a much better choice.

Plantation 3 Stars Artisanal

A good mixer Full of flavor and it mixes well with everything. The downside is the 12g/L added sugar.

Banks 7 Golden Age

Banks 7 Golden Age Mellow, toffee, sweet, a hint of wood and a little bit spicy. Most likely there`s sugar added to the rum but I don`t know.

Pusser's British Navy ”Nelson’s Blood” 15-year

Pusser's British Navy 15-Year Rum One of the classics... the only thing I don`t like is that it has 24g/L sugar added.

Havana Club Blanco

Havana Club Blanco It`s a mixing rum and has some flavs to it but it too can make a good daiquiri. It´s one of those old shelf rums...it`s always there even if not alway

Pusser's British Navy Blue Label 3-year

Pusser`s Rum The classic Pusser`s Rum perfect for the Painkiller cocktail and really, it is! a good middle-range rum usable in most mixed drinks and Tiki drinks.On

El Dorado 3-year

A delicate white This is a flavorful but delicate white rum, need to be mixed in cocktails with few other ingredients such as the daiquiri. Most likely it has a fair

Los Valientes 15-year

Los Valientes 15 Molasses, sugarcane and old oak followed by burnt caramel. Its heavier on the nose than the 10 year old and the taste is more spicy and has more woody

Plantation XO 20th Anniversary

Tasty but sweet Tasty, to sip and mix with. The bottle is also very stunning. (not the flat one, the other one) That said the so called "dosage" or in plain words - a

Gosling's Black Seal

Dark N Stormy anyone? This rum is perfect for the Dark N Stormy cocktail with it´s dark, thick flavor. Also good in tiki drinks, obviously.

Los Valientes 10-year

Nice sipper. In the nose i find a hint of plums, then oak and sugarcane.The flavour has a slight balanced fire and its molasses, dried tropical fruits, a slight hi

Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-year

Good mixing rum I find Barbancourt special, it`s less grassy than regular agricoles and it´s still a cane juice rum. The honey-like but sort of dry flavor is great to

Mount Gay Eclipse

Best for cocktails I was a bit disappointed when i first tasted this one but have found that it´s good in cocktails.

Kraken Black Spiced

Mixes ok I tried this one for the first time at the 2011 UK Rumfest and i was somehow expecting more so i was a bit disappointed but they mixed such tasty rum

Ok for caipirinhas. It´s an ok cachaca for the masses, makes ok caipirinhas but it´s not great, there are about 5000 cachacas in Brazil and only very few is exported. I h

Old New Orleans Amber

A mixing rum This is a typical mixing rum, good for cocktails. A nice feature on all Old New Orleans rums are the prints on the backside of the label with a print

Old New Orleans Crystal

A mixer This is a mixing rum, nothing really special about it except for the sugarcane from Louisiana...mixes well with most things. A nice feature on all Old

Myers's Original Dark

Myer´s Dark One of the staples for tropical and tiki drinks. It`s not among the best, not at all but some tiki drinks just need this rum.

Havana Club 3-year

Havana Club 3 yo This is another "always on the shelf rum" for years...it makes a good daiquiri and it`s just one of those you want to have on hand. It´s not a premium

Bayou Rum Silver Like the dark and the spiced ones, it´s a great budget rum and this one makes a good daiquiri. A mixing rum.

Bayou Rum It`s a mixing rum and goes well with coke for example. It`s a good rum but not premium. But it´s one of those that can be a versatile rum, i bet it´s

El Dorado 12-year

El Dorado 12 yo This one is a lot sweeter and less punchy than the 15 yo and to me this one is best used in cocktails but can sip too, if only it didn`t have so much

El Dorado 21-year

El Dorado 21-Year A more refined, mellow and complex version of the 12 and 15 combined sans the smokiness from the 15. Mixed fruits and spicy oak, dark chocolate, vanil

El Dorado 8-year

In between 5 and 12 I find this rum to stand in between the 5 yo and the 12 yo. The 15g/L added sugar takes down my rating.

Vanilla rum I find this rum tasty but too sweet and too much vanilla in the taste. it has a very pronounced vanilla flavor, but too much for me and I am a lover o

Angostura 7-year

Makes good cocktails I`ve had a lot of great cocktails with it at various rum and cocktail events but that said, it`s a bit too sweet and a cocktail almost always contains

Angostura 1919 8-year

Angostura 1919 8-Year Angostura rums have a nice flavor profile but I just wish they didn´t add sugar to them. This one has 13g/L so not the worst but it would been better

Oronoco Fazenda Reserva

Mild Flavorful and very mild, smooth and a bit buttery. Delicate and is best suited for daiquiris, but there are much better rums out there for daiquiris t

El Dorado Special Reserve 15-year

El Dorado 15 Year Full bodied in flavor, it was my first "rum-love" many many many years ago... nowadays I learnt that it has a whole lot of sugar added, around 31g/L a

Matusalem Gran Reserva 15-year

Good for rum and coke Makes a good rum and coke if you`re using Mexican cane cola.

Pusser's Red Label

Pusser´s Red Label Much more mellow than the blue label and lacks that punch the other one have. Better to sip than mix with i think if you`re gonna make tropical and ti

It´s a budget mixer It´s a budget mixer, and mixes ok, but there are better options.

Atlantico Private Cask

Nothing special Wasn`t disappointed when i first tried this rum, but wasn`t overwhelmed either. It`s smooth and sweet due to lots of added sugar (25g/L) and lacks th

Brugal Especial Extra Dry

Mixing rum Mixes well in cocktails and that´s about it. But there are way better white rums to mix drinks with though...

Cachaca This one is most likey just colored and it´s not the best of cachacas, far from it. It´s produced for the masses abroad or so i believe.

Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva

Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva This rum contains no less than 41g/L of added sugar and that is too much sugar for my taste. It would be much better if this rum could have been left

Malibu Coconut This is my teenage rum...one of those i used to use by then in my efforts to mix up tropical drinks. I don`t use it anymore, it has purely nostalgic v

Pyrat XO Reserve

Another too sweet rum This is one of the rums that many try when discovering the world of rums, it´s smooth and fruity, or rather orangey, and there´s a full 24g/l of sugar

Zaya Gran Reserva 12-year

Zaya The perfect example of a sweetened rum pretending to be "premium" but is a good dessert rum. It´s sweet and smoooth.... from added sugar... 20g/L but

Bacardi Superior

Bacardi White Rum Now i don`t know why they have changed this rum? i have tasted the pre-Castro one and it was a totally different rum, flavorful!.This one is like rum

Don Papa Small Batch

Sweet liqueur... I tried this at the UK rumfest in 2013 and found a very very sweet rum, like a vanilla liqueur...if they hadn`t made a quite original cocktail with it

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Trinidad and Tobago

Caroni 1994 Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago

Velier 1973 Skeldon

Velier 1983 Albion

Velier 1991 Blairmont

Bristol Classic 1988 Guyana Enmore

Damoiseau 1980 Full Proof 22-year

HSE 2002 Sherry Finish 6-year

HSE 2002 Single Malt Finish 6-year

HSE 1998 Single Cask (Cognac)

HSE 2000 Blanc Cuvée de l'an 5-year

HSE XO Grande Reserve 8-year

HSE Eleve sous bois 1-year

HSE VSOP Reserve Speciale 4-year

Rhum JM XO 6-year

Rhum JM 1997 10-year

Rhum JM 1999 10-year

Rhum JM 1998 10-year

Rhum JM 2001 9-year

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