Review: Oronoco Rum
Oronoco rum is made with Brazilian Mountain sugar cane that is crushed within 24 hours of being hand cut. It is triple distilled in a combination of copper pot stills and column stills. The rum is then blended with aged Venezuelan rum that was made with molasses. After resting in Brazilian Amendam hardwood casks, pure water is added to reduce to 80 proof. The unique bottle features a leather wrap around map of Brazil. Read more 
Review: Clement Mahina Coco
Clement Mahina Coco is crafted in Martinique at a former sugar plantation that was purchased by Homere Clement in 1887 when it went into bankruptcy during the peak of the sugar crisis. He made the investment to transform the plantation into a producer of Rhum Agricole. Mahina Coco is made with their Premiere Canne rhum. This rhum is made with juice from the first pressing of sugar cane and it is distilled once. The rhum rests for 9 months in a stainless steel vat and is slowly reduced with distilled volcanic spring water. Pieces of young coconut is soused in the rhum agricole before it is bottled at 36 proof. Read more
Review: Cruzan Aged Light Rum
Cruzan Aged Light rum is made in St. Croix at the spot where in 1760 a sugar mill once operated. The Nelthropp family built a distillery at this site in the early 1800’s. Today the eighth generation of Nelthropp’s are still working there. Cruzan Aged Light rum is made with tropical rain water and high quality molasses. They use a five column distillation process and remove the heads and fusel oils from each batch. The rum is aged in American oak barrels and a blend of rums aged between one and four years is selected. The rum is then filtered before bottling at 80 proof. Read more
Review: Calico Jack Key Lime Rum
Calico Jack Key Lime rum is one of nine flavored rums Beam Suntory creates under the Calico Jack label. White Rock Distillery launched this line of rum and originally sold it without the Calico name. This line of rum was sold with the flavor ahead of the Jack name. Examples include Coconut Jack, and Mango Jack. In 1993 White Rock sold Calico Rum and Pinnacle Vodka to Beam. Calico Jack Key Lime is made with rum distilled in St. Croix at the same distillery where Cruzan rum is crafted. Natural key lime flavor is added in Frankfort Kentucky where it is bottled at 46 proof. Read more
Review: Atlantico Platino Rum
Atlantico Platino rum is one of three rums they craft in the Dominican Republic. Atlantico is yet another celebrity rum, as Enrique Iglesias is one of the partners. Platino is made with two rums. One is made with molasses, and the other is made with sugar cane juice. Both rums are aged separately in oak barrels before they are blended together and filtered to remove the color. Read more
Review: Ron Matusalem Platino Rum
Ron Matusalem Platino rum was re-launched in 2002. Their rum was first produced in Santiago de Cuba in 1872 by a family that brought from Spain a secret formula for distilling and blending rum. In the period from the 1930’s-1950’s Ron Matusalem had over a 50% market share in Cuba. Following the Cuban revolution in 1959 the government took over the distillery and the rum was not made until it was re-launched in 2002 in the Dominican Republic using the original recipe. Ron Matusalem rum is triple distilled and aged in oak barrels where they use a Solera 3 blending process, where their rum transitions from younger to older barrels in a three step aging process. Read more
Review: Bacardi Tangerine Rum
Bacardi Tangerine rum will be introduced later this month. I was able to get my hands on a bottle a little early. It is one of 16 flavored rums they create with rum distilled in Puerto Rico. They start with molasses and a single strain of yeast, Le Levadura Bacardi that is fermented for 30 hours in closed fermentation tanks. The fermented molasses is split with some column distilled and some beer distilled. Each is aged separately in charred American white oak barrels previously used to age bourbon. Once mature the rums are blended and filtered through a mix of charcoal made from tropical woods and coconut shells. Natural flavors are then infused before bottling in Jacksonville Florida at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Mount Gay Silver Rum
Mount Gay Silver rum is made in Barbados at the oldest rum distillery. Rum has been distilled at this site since 1703. Mount Gay Silver is made with molasses from sugar cane grown in Barbados, a proprietary strain of yeast and pure natural filtered spring water sourced from deep ground water beneath the island. This water is filtered an additional three times before it is blended in. A double distillation in traditional double copper pot stills follows with the rum filtered four times and aged in charred white oak barrels previously used to mature American whiskey. Read more
Review: Monkey Toasted Coconut Rum
Monkey Toasted Coconut rum was created by Zane Lamprey, the host of Three Sheets, Drinking Made Easy, and Chug. The name comes from a stuffed monkey he would hide somewhere in each episode of his TV shows. The first person to spot the monkey could make everyone in their viewing party take a drink. Not only did Zane use his own money creating the brand, he selected the rum, and the natural flavors. He even designed the bottle which reminds me of a little of the old Barrel of Monkeys container from my youth. Monkey Toasted Coconut is made with Caribbean molasses and it is distilled in column stills in Angostura Trinidad. The rum is aged in American oak barrels that were first used to age bourbon. The rum is then infused with natural toasted coconut and Caribbean spices before bottling at 70 proof. Read more
Review: Caliche Rum
Caliche rum was introduced in 2012. It was created by Rande Gerber and Master Distiller Roberto Serralles in Puerto Rico at the Serralles family distillery where they also make Don Q rum. The Caliche name comes from a type of limestone found near the distillery, that is used to cement other materials together. Caliche is crafted with the finest Caribbean molasses. It is distilled five times in a column still and it is aged in American White oak barrels. Caliche is a blend of four different rums aged 3, 4, and 5 years with a small portion of Solera rum added. It is then filtered with a special charcoal blend to remove color build up during aging. Read more