Rum & Cachaca

10 Cane Rum

He describes a revelation he had regarding rum making on one of his expeditionary trips to the Caribbean: "I sucked on a cut cane in a field and decided that taste of raw sugar juice was what I ultimately wanted to bring to the spirit." To that end, the choice of the best cane is key to the rum as well as using it when it is as fresh as possible, he says. Pineau even praises the local harvesters of Trinidad, whom he describes as artists with their machetes. he bouquet is particularly floral, with a back aroma of olive oil. The palette certainly corroborates Pineau's intention with a sharp taste of cane sugar, but there are also hints of citrus, vanilla and spice, as well as fusel oils.

Angostura Gold Rum 5Year Old

Angostura 5 Year Old Gold Rum is a blend of light and heavy rums distilled in Angostura's five-column continuous still. The rum is aged in American oak Bourbon barrels between five and eight years. After aging individually, the rum is lightly filtered through charcoal to remove impurities, but not so much that it alters the inherently rich flavour or the wood induced, pale amber colour. It is then blended and bottled. This rum is an energetic and flavourful rum that is exceptionally smooth. It is plays an excellent role in a wide array of cocktails, contributing an attractive colour, taste and aroma to the drink. It is a slightly sweeter and more flavour some rum.It has subtle notes of burnt caramel, spices and vanilla intermingled with an apple fruitiness. The taste is rich, mellow and smooth with an almost fruitcake taste profile.

Appleton Estate White Rum

The Appleton Estate was founded in 1749 and is one of the world's oldest and most famous rum distilleries. Master Blender Joy Spence combines art and science to achieve the unique golden colours and sweet nutty flavours in Appleton Rums which are created through a combination of secret blending techniques and the lengthy wooden oak barrel ageing process in the tropical Jamaican climate. Appleton White, unlike many other white rums is aged and then filtered slowly through special charcoal. This results in a rum that is smooth, brilliantly clear and light bodied with a subtle taste and delicate aroma. Rum drinkers the world over appreciate the mixability of Appleton White, the perfect complement to fruit juices and coladas. Clear and smooth with a crisp, clean taste. An exceptional blend of Jamaican rums, Appleton White has a fruity bouquet with the aroma of coconut and pear, perfumed with lychee. Always the perfectly complement to fruit juices!

Appleton Special Golden Rum

The Appleton Estate was founded in 1749 and is one of the world's oldest and most famous rum distilleries. Master Blender Joy Spence combines art and science to achieve the unique golden colours and sweet nutty flavours in Appleton Rums which are created through a combination of secret blending techniques and the lengthy wooden oak barrel ageing process in the tropical Jamaican climate. The rum has a fuller nose and taste.

Bacardi Carta Blanca White Rum

Don Facundo Bacardi Masso emigrated to Cuba arriving as a wine merchant he set up as a grocer in the 1840s. To produce such a superior spirit Don Facundo combined the best of dark spirits production techniques (ageing and blending) with his pioneering charcoal filtration process. He also employed oak-ageing to smooth the raw edges of the spirit and produce a light, mellow clear white rum

Bacardi Oro Golden Rum

Over 14 different rums aged between three to five years are blended together to make Bacardi Oro Rum. It is a premium, golden rum. The extended ageing process allows the infusion of subtle nut, wood and dried fruit flavours into the rum from the charred wood barrels. After ageing, the rums are carefully blended to achieve Bacardi Oro Rum's characteristic smoothness. Bacardi Oro Rum is amber in colour and mellow in taste with impressions of vanilla and a balance of walnuts, spices and tropical fruits on a subtle background of oak. Its finish is mellow, smooth and gives it a perfectl balanced.

Chairman's Reserve Golden Rum

Doorlys Gold 5Year Old Rum

Doorlys Gold 5 YR Old Rum is produced at the Foursquare Plantation locted in Barbados, that now houses one of the world's most modern rum distilleries. Although the estate had produced sugar and then rum since early in the 1700's, and had been in the Searle family's hands for more than a century, it wasn't until a few years ago that the distillery was completely renewed. New columns and a pot still have been installed, and combined with the innovative blending and aging ideas of Richard Searle, the company is producing very fine premium rums and winning many plaudits and awards. Soft and gentle. Lovely balance of wood and soft spirit. Good weight. The finish is clean, easy going and sweet.

Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos Rum

Havana Club, continues to embody the heritage and supremacy of the Cuban rum-making tradition. Relying on the unique know-how of its Maestros Roneros, Havana Club has kept alive the art of añejamiento : the art of distilling, ageing and blending premium rums.Havana Club Añejo 7 Años was awarded Gold medals in 1995 and 1997 in Chicago. This is a stylish and exceptionally rich rum. A voluptuous, silky entry leads to a balanced yet extraordinarily complex palate of vibrant and refined warm cocoa, vanilla, sugarcane, chestnut and caramelised tropical fruit flavours braced by firm, smooth oak and rich brown spice. Finish Intense but round and smooth, its complex aged notes combine with a crispness reminiscent of its sugarcane origins to give a rum that is the pride of the whole Cuban rum-making tradition.

Havana Club Especial Golden Rum

Havana Club Añejo Especial is a premium golden rum, a blend of rums aged for up to five years in the ageing cellars of Havana Club, under the watchful eye of Don José Navarro, Havana Club's Maestro Ronero. As the name suggests, it is something special, a blend of old and young rums that results in a rich, warm gold-coloured rum. Its character combines the lightness of white rums and the robust aroma of dark rums. An intense aroma, reminiscent of sugarcane with slightly smoky accents and hints of honey, vanilla and cinnamon. Havana Club Añejo Especial is an intense rum with a round and persistent finish. However, it retains the characteristic lightness of all Havana Club rums.

La Mauny Rhum Blanc Agricole

Agricole AOC Martinique produced by Bourdillon Bellonnie & successeurs for over 250 years. Winner of Gold Medal 'Best in Class' for White Rhum 55% Paris, La Mauny is a superior rhum. ALA Mauny is the international leader in rhum agricole blanc with a significant share of the rum market in many european countries and the number one selling rhum blanc on the island of Martinique . Rhum Agricole comes from the fermentation and distillation of pure sugar cane juice. Aged rhum Agricole is stored in casks for a strictly controlled period of time which gives a delicate woody and spicy flavour.It has a rich, intense and fresh taste with a flowery, fruity nose which sets it apart from industrial rums.

Lambs Navy Rum

Created by Mr Alfred Lamb in 1849, Lamb's Navy Rum is made from a secret recipe using a blend of rums sourced from the four corners of the Caribbean. It is then aged to distinction in oak barrels to give it its unique smooth taste prized by rum drinkers the world over. Lamb's Navy Rum is instantly recognisable for its distinctive hexagonal shape bottle, designed to stop the rum rolling away in heavy seas.

Morgan's Spiced Rum

In 1944, the Seagram Company started producing rum under the name Captain Morgan Rum Company. Seagram CEO Samuel Bronfman purchased a distillery named Long Pond from the Jamaican government. Captain Morgan's Rum is distilled from sugar cane. The combination of the type of yeasts employed for fermentation, distillation method, aging conditions, and blending determines the characteristic flavor of rum. Made with molasses, water, mash and yeast, Captain Morgan Original Spiced rum is distilled in a continuous still. Once distilled, the clear spirit is aged in oak barrels for up to a year, adding a golden color and character to the rum before the flavors and spices are added. The brand’s taste is achieved through a proprietary recipe, which is blended into the rum mixture at the final stages of production, making use of spices indigenous to the Caribbean. Its dark, full-bodied colour and distinctive rich, smooth taste are unmistakable.

Mount Gay Eclipse Golden Rum

Mount Gay is one of the oldest rum in the world. Since 1703 this rum has been hand-crafted at the same location, using the finest Barbados sugar cane and pure spring water. Mount Gay Eclipse is a semi-light Barbados rum. This golden rum has a sweetish, smoky, soft flavour

Pampero Aniversario Rum

A delicious premium, continuous-still golden rum from Venezuela. Double Gold Medal - 2007 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Dark chestnut. Full bodied. Reminiscent of butterscotch, pipe tobacco, coffee, black walnut. Rich, creamy texture. Dark amber color; fragrant and toasty with sweet molasses; treacle, caramel and spice; unbelievable depth and spice.

Pampero Especial Venezuelan Rum

Pampero was created in 1938 by by the son of a fisherman Alejandro Hernandez. Hernandez original recipe introduced a distillation process unique to Venezuela. Hernandez harvested the finest sugar cane only in the incredibly humid dry season, to produce a smoother cut of alcohol. This alcohol blended with the local Carbonero spring water creates a distinctive deep, complex intense spirit with a surprisingly smooth rounded flavour.

Pussers Blue Label Navy Rum

In 1979, Charles Tobias – entrepreneur, global sailor, raconteur – sought to resurrect the Pusser's Rum tradition. He obtained the rights and all the blending information from the Admiralty, and formed Pusser's Ltd. on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and began bottling and selling this storied spirit in 1980 to the public for the first time. The Royal Navy Sailor' Fund, a naval charity more commonly called the “Tot Fund” receives a substantial donation from the sale of each bottle of British Navy Pusser's Rum. Pusser's is still produced in exact accordance with the Admiralty's specifications for rum. Unlike most rums, Pusser's uses no flavoring agents. It is 100% natural. In 2001, Pusser's was awarded the “Gold Medal - World's Premier Dark Rum” at the International Wine & Spirits Festival. In 2003, Pusser's Rum won a “Double Gold Medal” at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Sagatiba Pura Cachaca

Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

SailorJerry Collins (1911-73) was the most famous tattoo artist of all time. After collecting old recipes and late nights of taste testing, Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum was developed. A 80% US proof blend of Caribbean-style rum with vanilla , lime and other spices. Like a true sailor rum, it’s strong but goes down smooth.

Woods 100 Proof Rum

Originally, Rum was ‘discovered’ by 17th century Caribbean sugar growers who distilled the waste product from other manufacturing processes into a spirit known as ‘Kill Devil’. I Wood's 100 is one such rum, originating from what was known as British Guyana in South America. Distilled at The Diamond Distillery, Guyana. It is produced using a combination of spirit made in both pot and continuous stills, from the finest sugar cane grown along the banks of the River Demerara. It is matured for 1.5 to 3 years in oak before being blended. The sugar cane produced by this enormous life-giving river makes the sweetest sugar cane in the Caribbean.