Rum

For 2020,The Duchess Martinique 15 Years Old Rum Review by the fat rum pirate Independent Bottler The Duchess have begun a line of Hummingbird inspired r(h)ums, with artwork, as always from Dutch artist Hans Dillesse. There has been a little bit of...

The cane juice is making this rum more of a very pure rum, it doesn’t get any better than this. Cane juice in the French style rums (French-Caribbean) are called Rhum Agricole, what this basically is. It means a rum is distilled directly from the...

The Duchess Trinidad Rum Aged 21 Years hails from the iconic and now defunct Caroni Distillery. Despite the length of time since the distillery closed – way back in 2002, we are still seeing casks of rum being released by Independent bottlers from...

Yet another rum from Dutch Independent Bottler The Duchess this time from a Trinidad distillery that I didn’t even realise existed! To be fair to me by the time I got into rum in the early part of the 2010’s Ten Cane was fading out...

Blackadder International was established in 1995 by Robin Tucek who, together with daughter Hannah and son Michael runs the family business. Robin Tucek is also co-author with John Lamond of The Malt Whisky File – one of the most respected books...