Rum
Rum is a distillate of fermented sugarcane mash, or its byproducts (such as molasses or cane sap). Its birthplace is the Caribbean; each island makes its own distinct brands. The three major types of rum are white, golden and dark. With a few exceptions, white rum is not aged in oak casks. It’s the most common used in cocktails. Golden rums have a more mellow taste achieved by aging for six months to two years in oak barrels that often were previously used to age brandy, whiskey, or wine. Golden rums can be enjoyed alone over ice or made into hot rum drinks. Most dark rums are aged for two to four years, some of them much longer. These are the snifter rums best savoured neat. They can have a depth, warmth and mellowness akin to cognac. Following along the vodka trend, Bacardi and other leading rum producers have created new flavoured rums adding spices, fruits, tequila, peels and more.
Appleton Estates 21 Year Old ****½
452938 $89.95 Jamaica
Distilled in old copper stills aged in oak a minimum of 21 years. Deep amber with a royal warmth and depth. Butterscotch, old leather, vanilla and spices in bouquet. Velvety smooth. Complex fullness and depth. Yummy vanilla creamy character with long length. Snifter rum par excellence.
Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva 15 Year Old ****
464222 $34.95 Dominican Republic
First produced in Cuba in 1872, now made in the DR from the same recipe. Matured in French oak in a hand crafted 15-year-old solera system. Bronzed amber. Sweet toffee rum nose. Silky smooth in the mouth with a rounded elegance and lingering mellow rum vanilla ice cream tastes. Beguiling and delicious.
Mount Gay Extra Old ****
557975 $35. Barbados
Company is the world’s oldest rum distiller, operating since 1703. Double distilled in copper pots. Deep copper amber with a vanilla, ripe banana rummy nose. Mellow with gripping layers of vanilla, sweet rubbery rum and nice warmth.
Bacardi Eight Year Old ****
492520 $30. Canada
Blend of Caribbean rums aged a minimum of eight years in small mature oak casks in the warmth of the tropics. Light amber colour, rummy rich, refined and delicate. Mellow, hints of spice with a velvety smooth finish.
Appleton Estate Reserve ***½
637249 $27.95 Jamaica
Distilled in copper pot stills, aged in oak. Bronzed amber colour. Honeyed dried fruit, raison nose. Satiny sweet, mellow taste of honey, butterscotch and vanilla/oak.
Havana Club Dry 7 Year Old ***½
53140 $26.95 Cuba
Amber coloured matured seven years in oak barrel. Gentle, rounded woody sweetness. Lighter rum taste, quite aromatic with hay, herbs in the nose, with smooth sweet silky depth.
El Dorado Five Year Old Demerara Rum ***½
894014 $23.85, Guyana
Company has been making rum in the Caribbean for three centuries. Matured in 45 gallon oak casks within 6 degrees of the equator on the tropical north coast of South America. Amber-bronze colour with a sweet rum raison bouquet and a creamy banana rum/vanilla taste. Smooth defined rum flavours with a slightly raunchy finish.
Gosling’s Black Seal ***½
367672 $23.55 Bermuda
The base of the famed drink, “dark and stormy” (2 ounces of rum with 4 ounces of ginger beer over cracked ice). Orangey brown colour, full bodied with allspice, molasses nose and taste. Mellow and robust with a velvety spiced finish.
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Appleton Estate V/X ***½
177808 $21.95 Jamaica
The oldest sugar estate and distillery in Jamaica, established in 1749. Made in copper pot stills. Fruity aromatic banana nose which carries through in the fruity, ripe banana and sweet vanilla ice cream rum taste. Flavourful balance and fullness with decent complexities.
Mount Gay Eclipse ***½
64444 $23.60 Barbados
Company is the world’s oldest rum distiller, operating since 1703. A blend of 2-3 year old rums from pot and continuous stills, aged in charred Kentucky bourbon barrels. Golden amber with medium body and deep rummy aromatics. Very refined, smooth, banana rum warmth in the taste.
Bacardi Cóco ***½
200295 $21.95 Canada
Puerto Rican rum flavoured with coconut. Colourless and sweetened. Nicely done sweet intense coconut tastes
Bacardi Ciclón ***½
626994 $22. Canada
Bacardi gold with blue agave tequila and natural lime flavour. Lingering taste of lime peels with some peppery tequila notes.
Screech ***½
4622 $21.45 Newfoundland
Imported from Jamaica and bottled in St. John’s Newfoundland, according to an age-old seafarers tradition. Dark orange amber gold with a sweet, rich vanilla and banana character. Mellow with a grip. The natural for kissing the cod ceremonies.
Cockspur ***½
618868 $20.75 Barbados
Firm dates to 1884. Distilled from molasses and spring water filtered through Barbados coral rock, matured in white oak. Golden amber. Medium light, very gentle, sweet rum taste with vanilla, hints of spice and a sweet finish.
Tondeña Manila Gold ***
96289 $20.50 Philippines
Very pale gold. Sweet, honeyed caramel taste. Simple, rummy, easy going with a slight medicinal note.
Stroh 54 Spiced Rum ***
433094 $28.10/700mL Austria
Rum flavoured with spices and added alcohol (54 per cent). Deep bronzed amber. Fragrant vanilla, toffee, sweet perfumed spiced character. Best in coffee, hot chocolate and hot winter drinks.