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by mychurch
Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:37 am
Forum: Cuban Style Rum
Topic: TN Don Papa Rum
Replies: 1
Views: 5849

TN Don Papa Rum

A friend brought a bottle of the red label Don Papa to my Xmas meal in December and gave me a present of the 10 year old. I cant really see that there is much of a differance in the 2, so I´ll just review them together Style wise these are almost into the spiced rum - Ron de Jeremy came to mind, whi...
by mychurch
Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:17 am
Forum: Events and Awards
Topic: Annual Awards for 2015: Jim Murray
Replies: 3
Views: 16147

Good analysis Every year Wine Spectator magazine gets a lot of publicity with its "Top 100 Wines of the Year". No one can quite figure out the criteria, but volume is definetly 1 and I believe now that the top 10 have to present their wines at the Wine Spectator "Grand Tour" even...
by mychurch
Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:02 am
Forum: Barbadian/Bajan Rum
Topic: Rum Review: Mount Gay Extra Old Rum
Replies: 16
Views: 51150

Price increases are a fact of life and if I look at the wine world there are lots of wines I used to drink but can no longer afford. I can sympathise with the people who used to buy this for under $30, but having tasted this a few weeks ago for the first time, you really did get a bargain and you ju...
by mychurch
Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:47 pm
Forum: Twiggie's Tie Dye Rum
Topic: Rum Review: Old Monk Rum XXX Seven (7) Year
Replies: 8
Views: 21775

Very surprised to read how popular this is. Tasting for the first time tonight and I'm not impressed. Of courses there is alcohol on the nose, but it's subdued and dominated by artificial vanilla, caramel and cinnamon flavours. Medium bodied, this is more akin to alcoholic cough medicine, than a qua...
by mychurch
Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: And your name again was??
Topic: Hello from Leiden
Replies: 1
Views: 5680

Hello from Leiden

Hi I spotted this site over the summer while looking for sources of rum reviews. After Advocaat, the 2nd alcoholic drink I ever tried was my fathers OVD, which was always served with coke. Still buy OVD whenever I´m back in Scotland, but its only in the last few years that I´ve branched out to other...