L’Esprit Travellers 2005-2017 (67%)
L’Esprit Travellers 10th anniversary 2007-2017 (66.1%)
Today let’s discover two rums from a french bottler called L’Esprit. Theses are a bit similar on the paper, they come from the Travellers distillery in Belize.

Hampden Great House 2019 (59%)
Hampden Great House 2020 (59%)
Velier Hampden Yellow Shouldered Grossquit 2012-2020 (ABV%)
Velier Hampden LROK Rufous Tailed Flycatcher 2010-2020 (ABV%)
I had a chance to already taste the new Hampden Great House 2020 & the two new « Birds » single cask for Belgium selected by The Nectar.

Corman Collins Port Mourant 2003 (45%)
Corman Collins Hampden 2001 (60.4%)
Corman Collins Caroni 1999 (61%)
Hubert Corman is a Belgian independent bottler since many years now. His shop is located in Battice, where I went several times to catch some of his bottlings.

Wild Parrot South Pacific Sansibar 2009-2019 (62.3%)
Wild Parrot Hampden Sansibar 2009-2020 (63.8%)
Sansibar Caroni 1997-2020 (55.5%)

Jens Drewitz (Sansibar-Whisky) is releasing whisky & rum bottlings, he’s often working with the well-known IB Wild Parrot, let’s see what we’ve got here!

Velier Caroni Nita Hogan 2000 (65.2%)
Velier Caroni Ganesh Ramgobie 1998 (67%)
Velier Caroni Vijay Ranmarine 1996 (64.5%)

These are the first Employees trio of 2020, from three different vintages. It’s actually as rare to find a review as it is to find a bottle of these, so let’s go!

Saint James 2008 Velier 70th anniversary (60.8%)
Saint James 2003 Confrérie du rhum (59%)
Bally 2000 LMDW The chronicles (58.1%)
Bally 2000 Corman Collins (56.8%)

The first Rhum with a « H » review. These four are some special bottlings I always wanted to try!

Cadenhead’s Uitvlugt 1993 (49.9%)
The Rum Mercenary Uitvlugt 1997 (49.1%)
Velier Port Mourant 1997 (65.7%)
Velier Uitvlugt 1996 Modified GS (57.2%)

Let’s start the second part with my top 4 of this article.

Duncan Taylor Uitvlugt 1997 (52.8%)
The Nectar Uitvlugt 1998 (52.1%)
The Rum Mercenary Port Mourant 2002 (51.7%)

In the 90’s the Uitvlugt distillery used several stills: Savalle, Port Mourant and Versailles. I tasted a bunch of 7 of these Guyanese bottlings and tried to identify which still was used for each one.

Rum Nation Hampden 1990 Supreme Lord VII (45%)
Samaroli Hampden 1992 (52%)
Berry Bro’s Hampden 1990 (46%)

Let’s start the week with some Hampden oldies and these are all older than me! I’m especially loving this distillery and really have high expectations for those three rums.

Savanna Unshared cask Germany 2004-2019 (53.6%)
Savanna Unshared cask Réunion 2007-2019 (48%)
Savanna Unshared cask Belgium 2007-2018 (57.6%)

Three Savanna’s bottlings, one for each country. Savanna worked with independant bottlers or importers to release it in each country (Rum Artesanal for Germany & Premium Spirit for Belgium). These are country limited editions.