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Lagavulin 19 Year Feis Ile 2014
Review by: ZoidbergOnTheRocks While the standard expressions from Lagavulin generally range from pretty good (16) to great (the 12’s), their annual releases for Feis Ile are usually excellent and show what this distillery can really be about. They started in 2007 with a bunch of single casks and very limited quantities, and it’s opened up to usually 6,000 bottles in recent years. Quite some…
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Rum X Savanna Grand Arôme 17 Year 2007 Cask #991
Review #1500; Rum #799 This is a bottling of rum done by the Savanna distillery for RumX. This is a single cask of Grand Arôme marque rum from Savanna, which is one of their higher ester production styles. This rum is distilled from molasses and aged for 17 years at Savanna in tropical conditions first in ex-Cognac and then ex-Armagnac casks. It was then bottled at cask strength with no…
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Raising Glasses Papilio Hampden 6 Year C<>H
Review #1488; Rum #787 This sample was provided to me by a producer, distributor, or some other industry source free-of-charge. No compensation, outside of the sample, was received and there were no strings attached. This was the leftover bottle from a tasting I was unable to attend, and a friend held this for me to try. This is a single cask bottling from Raising Glasses that was bottled by…
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Raising Glasses Perennia Caroni 27 Year 1997
Review by: The Auditor Review #1466; Rum #765 Here we have a very special bottling released last year by Raising Glasses, that Boston based independent bottler. Here, they have bottled some Caroni from the famous now closed distillery. This rum was distilled from molasses on column stills in 1997. It aged for 12 years in Trinidad, another 15 years in the UK, all in ex-bourbon more than likely.…
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Appleton Hearts 21 Year (1999) Re-Review
Review by: The Auditor Review #1438; Rum #737 Well, I forgot I have tried this before but that was about 3.5 years and many rums ago. So let’s see how my tastes may have shifted. This is a rum from Appleton Estate, that famed Jamaican distillery. This is a 100% pot still rum distilled from molasses that was aged for 21 years in Jamaica before being bottled at a high proof with no additives.…
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Velier Mangum Series #3: Hampden 8 Year (2017) <>H
Review by: The Auditor Review #1436; Rum #: 735 The Velier Magnum series is an interesting collaboration between rum and photography. Spanish photographer Cristina De Middle, president of Magnum photos, came and took pictures of Hampden distillery. Four of these photos were selected for this Velier Jamaican series highlighting the famed Jamaican distillery. This rum from Hampden Estate was…
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Velier Magnum Series #3: Hampden 7 Year (2018) HGML
Review by: The Auditor Review #1434; Rum #733 The Velier Magnum series is an interesting collaboration between rum and photography. Spanish photographer Cristina De Middle, president of Magnum photos, came and took pictures of Hampden distillery. Four of these photos were selected for this Velier Jamaican series highlighting the famed Jamaican distillery.Working with Hampden, this bottling is…
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Hampden Fifteen
Review by: The Auditor Review #1432; Rum #731 This bottle of rum from Hampden Estate is the distillery’s oldest expression to date. This rum was distilled from molasses on a copper pot still in 2010 after fermenting wildly with cane vinegar, dunder, and muck. Put into an ex-bourbon barrel it aged for 15 years at origin in Jamaica before being bottled at a high proof with no additives. This rum…
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