You might be able to guess what the question is that I get asked most when it comes to rum. “What is your favourite rum?”. Problem is, I don’t have a favourite rum. I might consider one the best today and something completely different next week. What I can give a satisfying answer to is when someone asks about my preference for a rum country. Nobody ever asks that question though. Damn! The answer to it is Jamaica. I simply love the wide variety of fruity flavours in Jamaican rum. It takes...

Life is full of twists and turns. Sometimes they are good, at times they are bad. Thanks to a variety of these I’ve put rum on the 3 rd row for a while. Actually, more likely the 7 th  row. Moving houses is one of the things that’s keeping me pretty occupied. The prospect of living somewhere else is great, but packing and unpacking is definitely not my favourite hobby, certainly not when hundreds of rum bottles need to be stored somewhere safely. I’m now living in my house without lots of...

I figured a nice Christmas gift to myself would be to become a little more up to date with the latest Foursquare rum distillery releases. Lucky me, a sweet little angel named Robin made this a possibility by giving me a couple of samples! The rums in question are Mandamus and Redolent. The latter being a Whisky Exchange exclusive.   Obviously there are many more recent releases than these two, but me and my wallet can’t keep up with them anymore. I’ve stepped away from that Foursquare...