Old Brothers & Excellence Rhum 2020

JM Old Brothers & ER 1999-2020 (43.1%)
Chairman’s Reserve Old Brothers & ER 2000-2020 (65.1%)

Another kind of brothers, not blood ones but brothers in heart. I had the chance to meet Anto in the last year’s Salon du Rhum in Belgium, and he’s very kind and passionate person! We enjoyed spending some times together at the Old Brothers stand. Excellence Rhum (one of the biggest rum shop/webshop in France) contributed to the selection with Old Brothers.

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More Enmore

Origin R Enmore 1988-2015 (50.4%)
Rum Artesanal Enmore 1994-2020 (51.4%)
Silver Seal Enmore 1986-2007 (55%)
We gonna try some Demerara dark rums today, as I heard lot of good things about the Silver Seal 1986 and Rum Artesanal Enmore 1994, it’s time to taste them and make my own opinion about them.

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Saint James 2.0

Saint James Corman Collins 17yo 2002-2020 (52.4%)
Saint James Brut de fût 2003-2018 (56.4%)
Saint James Confrérie du Rhum 2003-2018 (59%)
A wonderful Saint James trio to face. I already reviewed the CDR bottling right there but I used it as a benchmark for the two others today, so I copy/pasted my thoughts you could’ve read in this article.

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The truth about The Rum Cask Hampden 1990 30yo

Duncan Taylor Hampden 1990-2012 (52.9%)
The Rum Cask Hampden 1990-2020 (55.6%)

Today I’ll mainly talk about The Rum Cask Hampden 1990, and I used this lovely Duncan Taylor Hampden 1990 (I already had the chance to taste) as a benchmark. Did you read that the TRC Hampden 30yo has been sold out one day before its official release date? I’ll share with you this anecdotal story.

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