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Bounty Rum

Well after another extended absence from writing reviews; I decided that it was time to write up a couple of rums that are floating under the radar, but starting to make themselves known in the cocktail scene. I received these samples from Melissa Pinkerton at SPIRIBAM: Fine Rum Specialists over the summer before I left Chicago for Nashville. She was very excited to start bringing these to new accounts and introducing cocktail rums from Saint Lucia. A beautiful little island...

ENGLISH HARBOUR PORT CASK

ENGLISH HARBOUR PORT CASK FINISH   STYLE: Rum ABV: 46% DISTILLER: Antigua Distillery Ltd, St. John’s, Antigua AGE: 5 Year (Finished three to six months in Port Butts). Bottled November 2016.   English Harbour is a newer rum for me and I am kicking myself for not having discovered them sooner. Although the brand has only existed since the early 1990’s, Antigua Distillery Ltd has a history dating back to 1932 and includes a five and 10-year rum in their...

FOURSQUARE PORT CASK

FOURSQUARE PORT CASK FINISH STYLE: RUM ABV: 40% DISTILLER: FOURSQUARE DISTILLERY, BARBADOS AGE: 9 Year (3 years ex-bourbon barrels, 6 years ex-port butts). Bottled June 2014. BLEND: No. 162 Foursquare’s Port Cask Finish is the second entry in the Exceptional Cask Selection series from the Barbados based distillery. It is a blend of both modified twin-column Coffey and pot still rums made from molasses native to Barbados and sourced from Guyana’s Demerara River Valley. From there it spends the first...

FOURSQUARE CRITERION

FOURSQUARE CRITERION   STYLE: RUM ABV: 56% DISTILLER: FOURSQUARE DISTILLERY, BARBADOS AGE: 10 Year (3 years ex-bourbon barrels, 7 years ex-madeira casks). Bottled April 13, 2017. BLEND: Pot and Column   Criterion is the fifth release in the Exceptional Cask series by Foursquare Distillery with only 2,000 bottles available to the U.S. Market. As you may have read already in my previous review of the Foursquare Port Cask Finish; Foursquare is a rum distillery from St. Philip, Barbados and owes...