Thank you! and you know I just had to flash a bottle of Rum Fire haha

thank you!

Thanks so much!

Thank you! So glad to hear you liked the Doorlys 12 year! Cheers!

Cheers to that!

Don Q 7 pairs pretty well with cigars

@@uraniumrock8381 Interesting! I'll definitely have to check that out!

haha, awesome and apologizes to your bank account!

Thank you so much! Appreciate it.

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing that! Great to hear that you're enjoying rum. I have that bottle of Touchstone and I really enjoy it. Quite the nice rum. Cheers!

Thanks!

You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!

Great idea on suggesting clairin/puro for mezcal drinkers! Also, that hampden peat thing is kinda brilliant!

@@therumrevival haha thank you! I’m been successful with this approach so far, but I’m sure there will be some people it doesn’t work on.

Oh, you poor soul. Now we'll have to give you an exorcism to relieve you of Captain Morgan's fake vanilla and syrupy ghost. I would recommend R.L. Seale 12 year in the funky black bottle. If that's not available in your area, Total Wine offers a 10 year version. And while you're there, pick up a Doorly's 14 year as well. Both are Bajan rum (i.e. from Barbados) and made at perhaps the greatest rum distillery in the world, Foursquare (who Fred Minnick recently quipped was the Pappy van Winkle of rum).

I would also throw in there Pusser's ($27) and St. Lucia Distillery's Chairman's Reserve Legacy ($40), both of which will gently ease you into the funk. They're my personal favorites as a regular sipper,

You're welcome! Hope I was able to help you find a decent rum to try. You can't go wrong with any of the ones on my list.

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

Great point! I did think about including Cuba, but I just felt that it would be a tease given that consumers in the states can't get their hands on it. I do have plans to cover Cuba in the future. Brought over lots of goodies in my last trip to London.

I still have 2-unopened one liter bottles of Havana Club 7 and half of a one liter bottle of Havana Club 3 year and a full, unopened one as well. Picked them up at the duty fee store in Panama on the way back from a trip me and my wife took to Ecuador (wife is originally from there) in May/June 2022. We were allowed to bring back 5 liters each. Thus, six liter bottles of Havana Club 7 and four liter bottles of Havana Club 3.

You are welcome!

Thanks!

I feel you on the too many hobby status. I haven't had too many VI rums, and I could only include such a small selection in this video so had to exclude plenty of countries

Thanks! That Foursquare Indelible is delicious!

I love Legacy! Good recommendation!

Legacy is great for the price

@@supersocashow3176 such great value!

Thank you! The clairins maybe my favorite cane spirits out there.

The Mexican rums and the Rivers rum from Grenada might also tickle your palate if you like the Clairins,

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll be on the lookout for them.

Thanks! I don't keep a whole lot behind me so its not cluttered. But maybe I'll change up what's visible from video to video.

Personally, I prefer 8 if I want a bit more of a fruity and vibrant experience. If i want more oak, then 12

Thanks so much for the nice words. And yeah, its always worth revisiting rums from the past. You never know they might end up being better (or worse) than you remember. Hope you end up trying and enjoying the Terroir Volcanique.

Wow thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Just trying to spread the good word!

@@therumrevival Not at all. I’d seen you on Derek’s channel and meant to come and check you out; I just hadn’t got round to it. This video came up on my recommended page, so it was good first video to see if I liked the style - and I do! One thing I can’t thank you for (though I can’t exactly blame you for either) is how lucky you are, and how unfortunate we are in the UK, that these products are available to you at such fantastic prices compared to over here. Sub $20 Doorly’s Anything is astounding. Your prices on Plantation, sorry, Planetary or whatever, are great too. Not to get into the discussion about that company here, I’d say it’s one that needs to be had, though requires a lot of nuance. I’d be interested to hear your take on the subject eventually.

Great points! Rum definitely doesn't fall into easily definable categories like other spirits. Does take a bit of effort to get a sense of it. Hope this helps your friends1

Thanks! the JM Gold is not really close to the Volcanique. There's less aging on it and it doesn't have that heavy char note.

I believe its another Foursquare offering exclusive to Total Wine (much like Doorly's).

HI, thank you! I got my OB at Total Wine. I don't remember which one but I believe its exclusive to there.

Dang. The TWMs near me don't stock it. 😵‍💫 Thanks for the replies though!

Thanks! If we're talking molasses then seems like most distilleries are having to import it in as there isn't enough local production to meet their needs. We are seeing a trend of distilleries growing their own cane and making molasses from it. Both Mount Gay and Foursquare are making efforts in that space. I think its to be applauded as it means they're working with better quality molasses. I didn't know that that XO is now 43%. That's great news. Have to grab a bottle now.

I didn't realize Foursquare was delving into producing their own. Your video on Mount Gay's Single Estate Rum was excellent, as well. Here's to hoping more distillers decide to produce their own sugar cane in the future where possible.

Thanks! Ihaven't had any of those specific bottlings, but in general I'm a big fan of Worthy Park.

Thanks for sharing all of those recommendations! All great picks. I didn't include Bacardi because most newcomers to rum are likely already going to be familiar with the brand. I purposely wanted to expose them to brands that they might not be familiar with

Oh boy, that sure opens up a can of worms doesn't it LOL

Thanks! There's a lot left on the cutting room floor.

I prefer the JM 55 over the 40, but went with the 40 since its more widely available in the states. Unforunately, St. James and HSE are fairly hard to come by in the states. I hope that changes as what I've had from them I've very much enjoyed. Cheers!

Great question! While technically you can make a distilled spirit with crystalized sugar, I wouldn't necessarily call it rum. The reason for that is the table sugar is so refined to the point that it is just pure sucrose. There are no other organic compounds present that are unique to sugarcane. And really its those organic compounds unique to the source material that, in my opinion, that gives that spirit its identity and flavor. It's what separates a rum from say a tequila. When you've stripped it to just sucrose then it might as well as come from any source material... like beets.

@@therumrevival Thanks for the reply! That makes sense, in retrospect. I thought about it more and it started to sink in that once you refine the sugar to pure sucrose, it doesn't matter what source material was used to get there--it's now a purified commodity. ... that said... what about unrefined or minimally refined ("raw", or demerara, for example) cane sugar? These still have a lot of the molasses and therefore minerals and other sugars from the source material (cane)... Is it all or nothing (no sugar refined out from cane juice can be used to make something we would call "rum", only molasses or fresh cane juice or cane syrup)? Or is there some fuzzy line where the sugar is "too refined" to call the resulting spirit rum any longer? And do distillers ever add pure cane sugar back into a wash to modulate the fermentation? Apparently brewers use pure maltose syrup in the mash/wort (not sure, I'm not a brewer) for various reasons (mostly to boot ABV without affecting flavor, from the sound of it). Curious if anything like this goes on in rum production and where the lines are, if there are lines at all (and whether or not the lines depend on which regulatory authority the producer finds themselves under). I'm eyeing my copy of Modern Caribbean Rum on the shelf and thinking the answers probably lie in those pages... but I figured I would shoot a follow up here in case others would also find the answers interesting

No formal training. Just lots of drinking and reading about it.

@@therumrevival Thanks, to me rum I can't get the taste notes as others.

Yeah seems like the 8 and 12 jumped up around $10 in these parts. The El Amparo is high on my list of what to get next. Just got all three of the Hampdens. Had a couple of sips of the Pagos...and wow!

I wish we could get Cuban rums here in the states

@@therumrevival people have them. You can bring bottles into the country.

well said!

Hope the suggestions in this video were useful in finding a tasting rum.