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Raucous Rum Tasting 09 February 2012
*** Thursday February 9th restored some of my faith in the future of rums here in Calgary. The third Raucous Rums tasting event which I have now attended — hosted by Kensington Wine Market’s Andrew...
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Ten Decent Rums (Roughly) Under $100
* In late 2010, for Christmas, I posted a list of my favourite rums under fifty dollars. It’s proved to be quite a hit: for a modest little site like ours, that list keeps getting decent hits. I’ll...
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Eight Rums I Will Never Buy Again
I really don’t like the rums listed here. It’s appreciated that if there ever was a list to piss people off, this is it. Maltsters will snicker into their sporrans to see one of their pet peeves taken...
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Raucous Rum Tasting (05 June 2012)
The latest KWM’s Raucous Rums tasting was held in the KWM shop tasting room in Calgary on June 5th, and as usual I squirreled myself (and on this occasion, my grown-up daughter) off into a back...
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Raucous Rum Tasting 27 September 2011
The Raucous Rums of the evening Tuesday 27th September 2011 was one of those days in which I participated in an event about which, even though absolutely nothing went terrifically wrong, I have mixed...
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Raucous Rums Tasting (04 October 2012)
As has now become a pleasant routine every six months or so, I attended the second Kensington Wine Market Raucous Rums tasting of 2012 on Thursday 4th October, and as has also become my habit, I...
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A Tale of Four Fives
Inspired by the amazingly refreshing (and original) website andabattleofrum which has a world cup of rums – well worth a look for sheer inventiveness and style – I decided to implement an idea that...
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Ten Decent Rums (Roughly) Under $50
(First posted December 2010) * Christmas is right around the corner, and soon, if not already, we’ll be having hair of the dog, doing the hearty party and drinking to excess on every possible occasion...
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Ten Decent Rums (Roughly) Under $200
Here is another in my ongoing series of “favourite” lists. This one focuses on the premium segment. *** Make your enemies green with envy, please your friends, impress wannabe hangers-on and have...
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Three Italian Fantasias
These three rums are aged curiosities. There’s one from the 60s, and two from the 70s. Information on their origins is maddeningly obscure. The labels are crap, and the corks aged and faded and...
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Three Cachaças from Delicana
(#214) *** Although a huge market for cachaça exists in Brazil where it is the national tipple they sometimes call pinga, very little of it makes it to other countries in comparison to agricoles...
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Three Rums from Severin Simon
(#223) Germany has a number of home-grown rum makers out there. Oh, they’re not world beaters by any means, but in a country that never really had any tropical colonies, no real culture of rum, no...
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Nine Rums from Out Of Left Field
Want a rum that says a big FU to your opinion? Here’s one, and then eight more. *** It annoys me no end, seeing the same boring rundown of standard table rums extolled by journalists who don’t bother...
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21 Great Whites
* All apologies to those who like the Bacardi Superior, Lamb’s White and other filtered, smooth, bland (dare I say boring?) 40% white rums in their cocktails, or who just like to get hammered on...
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A Velier Port Mourant Tasting Blowout
Some days are just harder than others, especially when we put our lives and livers and family time on hold, just say f**kit and do a deep dive into rums that are insanely expensive, excrutiatingly...
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Taking Apart Velier’s “Wharren Khong” Rums
In early May 2018, following on from a much-envied and jealously-regarded Velier Port Mourant tasting, Nicolai Wachmann and Gregers Nielson busied themselves with some of the new rums issued for...
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21 More White Rums
Around two years back, I put up a list of those favourites of the mixing class, the white rums, and listed 21 examples I considered memorable up to that point. Back then, I contended that they might...
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Raucous Rums Tasting (03 February 2011)
Andrew Ferguson illustrates a point Thursday 3rd February was bit of a milestone for me: it marked the first tasting I had ever attended, and it suggested that perhaps rum really does have a future...
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Raucous Rum Tasting 09 February 2012
*** Thursday February 9th restored some of my faith in the future of rums here in Calgary. The third Raucous Rums tasting event which I have now attended — hosted by Kensington Wine Market’s Andrew...
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Raucous Rum Tasting (05 June 2012)
The latest KWM’s Raucous Rums tasting was held in the KWM shop tasting room in Calgary on June 5th, and as usual I squirreled myself (and on this occasion, my grown-up daughter) off into a back...
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