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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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Mars 27, 2022
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Glad Worldwide Whisk(e)y Day!
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| Yearly since 2008, right here and elsewhere and on March 27, the unique, actually non-commercial Worldwide Whisk(e)y Day commemorates the birthday of the a lot missed Michael Jackson, the nice whisky author (1942 – 2007). At this time increase a glass to Michael Jackson and please assist battle Parkinson’s Illness! |
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Doing rums, for Michael Jackson
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Earlier than we deal with brandies once more (subsequent week!) Let’s begin this easy-easy…
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Pattern Eleven Blended Rum (44%, The Rum Mercenary and Kintra, 2019) 
It says it’s ‘light and daring’ and I feel the bottle was designed awesomely. Color: mild gold. Nostril: putty and wax, sugarcane juice, benzine, linseed oil, previous magazines, floor after a heavy tropical bathe. No complaining. Mouth: excellent, cane-y, petroly, with overripe bananas and only one olive. The 44% vol. really feel a bit of mild, however that must be me. Very good salty cane-iness. End: medium, this time with one or three black olives, past the cane. Feedback: I feel you can make stupendous mojitos or ti’punchs out of this, however it’s a sipper too. Straightforward and sensible composition, with a strong spine.
SGP:552 – 85 factors. |
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Caroni 23 yo 1998/2021 ‘Tortuga 2’ (59.9%, East Asia Whisky Firm, Treasured Liquors, and Sea Turtle Conservancy, Trinidad, cask #35) 
Straightforward-easy, he stated… Now this was performed inside a partnership between East Asia Whisky Firm, Treasured Liquors, and The Sea Turtle Conservancy. I can’t consider a greater trigger, besides Ukraine, in fact. Color: gold. Nostril: mild Caroni, however with a lot shoe polish, metallic polish, tomato sauce (all’arrabbiata) and castor oil. A bit of tabasco and sriracha. With water: manzanilla! Castrol! 2-stroke fumes! New MacBook! (this time with a keyboard that you can use, hope they’re performed with a budget junk). Mouth (neat): some varnish as in one of the best bourbons, then smoked bacon, extra sriracha, paint, varnish and tarragon. With water: smoky liquorice and roasted nuts. The core’s not massive, however the coating is ideal. End: medium, saltier and brinier, tarry and ashy, with inexperienced pepper within the aftertaste. Feedback: completely wonderful, regardless of the thinner physique of a ‘mild’ Caroni.
SGP:362 – 88 factors. |
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New Yarmouth 26 yo 1994/2021 (59.1%, Thompson Bros., Jamaica, 271 bottles) 
I’m not a fan of New Yarmouth, I discover them ‘an excessive amount of’ and ‘too binary’. There, I stated it. Color: amber. Nostril: gasoline station, carbon paper and olives. With water: pencil shavings, Van Winkle, IKEA, glues. Mouth (neat): salted fudge, gresini sticks, focaccia, then liquorice, molasses and pancake syrup. Actually very candy. With water: bananas and olives stewed in liquorice, manuka honey and vodka? Superb however lacks a kick. End: lengthy, on tarry and smoky brine. Quite a lot of energy however maybe not numerous physique. Rotting bananas within the aftertaste. Feedback: it is simply that I am a fan of Hampden and Worthy Park.
SGP:662 – 82 factors. |
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JMWP Rum 15 yo (54%, Thompson Bros., Jamaica, 259 bottles) 
What a beautiful, soiled, punkish label, you’d virtually consider our buddy Jamie Reid made it. However this must be Worthy Park, so shh… Color: gold. Nostril: huuuge, on previous Comté cheese, pearish varnish, brine, previous Gouda, pipe tobacco, Williams pear eau-de-vie… In fact I discover this gorgeous, I am certain it will go nicely with foie gras. With water: forgot to say, that might be duck, it is too heavy for goose. Mouth (neat): distinctive spirit, targeted, tight, smoky and ashy, easy and but tertiary, salty, coastal… I feel we’ll point out oysters. With water: ooh, sorrel! End: very lengthy, splendid, chiselled, with notes of Portuguese anchovy cream. Obrigada. Feedback: the one query that continues to be is, between Worthy Park and Hampden, which is Ardbeg and which is Lagavulin? What do you say? Very nicely chosen, Phil and Simon (and Colin and Ros). A pinnacle of malternative rum.
SGP:463 – 91 factors. |
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It is getting powerful, let’s keep away from Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and even Barbados…
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Clarendon 10 yo 2010/2021 (63%, Dràm Mor, Jamaica, cask #433043, 295 bottles)
Clarendon is Monymusk. Color: gold. Nostril: bitter brine, seawater, gherkins, olives, capers, new IKEA stuff, glues, excessive liquorice, varnishes, carbolineum… haha. With water: carbon, ink, spent engine oil, inexperienced grapefruit, starfruit, physalis, Kawasaki fumes, carbon mud. Mouth (neat): the most effective. Enormous salty liquorice, tar, grapefruits, glue, oysters, pepper, plastics, Play-doh… Will get extraordinarily dry, extraordinarily tarry. Huge rum! With water: tarry smoke, lime, greengages, rhubarb and kiwi… I discover this inexperienced fruits + tar combo simply completely impeccable. End: very lengthy, ashy. Extra ashes than within the Worthy Parks and Hampdens. Feedback: these Clarendons are austere, they will be the Arvo Pärts of rum. Hope Putin’s Russian canines will depart Estonia alone.
SGP:363 – 90 factors. |
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I consider we have to keep in Jamaica…
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Monymusk 9 yo 2010/2020 ‘SBS’ (62%, Velier, Nationwide Rums of Jamaica, 15 barrels, 4660 bottles)
By no means heard of an ‘SBS’ marque at Monymusk. If it is MBS, that is no esters to virtually no esters. One Monymusk that I used to be nonetheless having within the stash. Color: gold. Nostril: a mistake right here, that is ten occasions sweeter, rounder, cakier, un-Jamaican, actually very good, simply misplaced. Feels Cuban, all proper, all proper. With water: bananas flambéed, acacia honey, Havana Membership. See what I imply. Mouth (neat): tighter and saltier, however the physique’s mild and virtually skinny. Pineapple wine, mild brine, cane juice, sugar syrup. With water: skinny physique however a nice salty fruitiness over it. Lemon syrup and cane syrup. End: medium, mild, a bit of earthy, barely salty, thinnish. A drop of seawater, say from the Mediterranean, plus caramel and orange liqueur. Not precisely a malternative, however there. Feedback: good however skinny, mild, a bit of irritating and un-Jamaican. I’d have stated Dominican.
SGP:552 – 80 factors. |
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We might do with a bonus (tasted a couple of days later)…
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Foursquare 13 yo 2007/2021 (60.9%, Dram Mor, Barbados, 277 bottles)
This 13 years previous FS spent the primary eight years of its life on the Distillery, so does that depend as ‘tropical growing old’? Is not there generally an excessive amount of politics in rum? Ought to the devoted drinker care? Let’s talk about that at some point, secure from any lobbying eyes and ears (and, above all, mouths)… Color: gold. Nostril: very foursquare, oily and but mild, with some smoky chocolate, banana foam, deep-roasted nuts, black praline, touches of spent engine oil maybe… In fact I discover it a tad extra pot-still-y than ordinary, however which may be the insanely excessive energy. With water: a bit of bacon, a bit of toasted bread, the lightest toffee ever, popcorn… This certain is mild rum, in reality. Mouth (neat): coconut and polish, then triple sec and peanut oil, plus simply maize grain whisky (ala North British). Effectively, this time I am discovering it much less pot-still-y than ordinary, go determine. With water: no no no, maintain on, this time we’re discovering a mentholy greenness that might somewhat remind us of some cachaças. I feel we’re considerably misplaced. End: medium, with delicate natural touches. Maybe chamomile, and certainly a small pink olive within the aftertaste. Feedback: we won’t and will not comply with Foursquare all through the ages (no time for that, bear in mind, solely Sundays) however I loved this very medium one which was very ‘self-blend’ certainly, however maybe not very malternative:. Forgot to say orange cake within the aftertaste.
SGP:641 – 85 factors. |
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 Examine the index of all rums we have tasted thus far
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