Sale of Caroni (1975) Ltd rum stock by auction was aborted yesterday two hours after the auction started.
There were no bids following the announcement by auctioneer Edward Soon that bidding would have to start at $7.8 million. The auction was to have been held at Rum Distillers of Trinidad and Tobago (RDTT), Old Southern Main Road, Caroni, at 11 a.m.
Bruichladdich has released a series of whiskies influenced by France's greatest chateaux of all time. The First Growth series comprises of 6 limited edition 16 year old Cuvée - labelled A to F. They are matured in American oak with an additional cask evolution in French oak casks from each of the 1855 first growth chateaux, including Sauternes.
The famous 1855 Classification of Bordeaux rated chateaux into 5 groups according to quality and price of their wines. The First Growths were the best. Today these legendary estates use casks coopered from the finest French oak, 150 to 200 year old trees from the forests of Troncais, Allier and Vosges.
New Delhi, Sep 18 : Havana Club, the celebrated Cuban rum, is entering the Indian market. Its white rum is being launched by Havana Club International, a 50:50 joint venture between the French alcoholic beverages giant Pernod Ricard and the Cuban government.
When I was presented the opportunity to review a new kind of rum tasting glass from Spirit Sippers, I decided to not only review their Flare rum tasting glass but also compare it against other glasses I’ve previously used to taste rum from.
This was an interesting opportunity to me as I’ve never before had a glass designed specifically for rum and I was excited to see if the shape of the glass really affects the entire tasting experience. The experiment would have been even more interesting had I had some Riedel tasting glasses but since I didn’t, I had to work with what I had. In the end I was quite pleased with the results of the test which you can read below.
It might not be a medal in the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, but Seven Fathoms Rum has brought home silver from one of the largest and most prestigious annual spirits competitions in the United States.
The rum category tastings of the 2008 International Review of Spirits Competition took place in May in Chicago. More than 80 rums from around the world were entered in the tasting.
In being awarded a silver medal, Cayman’s only locally distilled rum scored 88 points, a score that indicates it is highly recommended by the Beverage Tasting Institute.
Drinks giant Diageo says its new Roseisle whisky distillery near Burghead, in Moray, is on target to be completed by late this year. The group plans to commission the £40million plant in January and be operating at full capacity by the spring. However, it will be a while before the public will be able to sample a blend containing Roseisle malt – the first whisky will not be available until 2012.
It was at the start of last year that Diageo revealed it wanted to build the new distillery to feed demand for Scotch whisky in fast-growing markets such as China. It will be Scotland’s first major new whisky distillery in 30 years.
Mahiki, the world famous Mayfair club, celebrity favourite and home to the 'pieces of eight' treasure chest cocktail, has launched its own range of premium rums, available exclusively at all Selfridges stores from 16 June, 2008.
The new Mahiki Rum range consists of Mahiki White Rum (£28.99), Mahiki Gold Rum (£29.99) and Mahiki Cognac Cask Rum (available August 2008), each distilled and blended in Barbados, the world's oldest rum - producing island, and created by one of the rum industry's leading experts and mixologists, Papa Jules.
Making moonshine has gone from a backwoods black art to a high-end hobby practiced by "whiskey geeks" with a taste for top-shelf hooch.
Unlike their bootlegging predecessors, who cooked up big batches of white lightning and distributed the illegal booze out of the backs of cars, today's moonshiners focus on quality rather than quantity.
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