REFINED VICES

paulipbartender wrote:I should have mentioned - we're training for El Dorado and they've given us the most wonderful insights into their brands.

What a marvelous occupation that you seem to have.
Thank you kind sir for your deep, and revelatory insights

Legs are a quick but imprecise way of judging alcoholic strength. You cannot read much more out of it. It's not related to viscosity or quality of maturation. It's only a amusing phenomenon to observe while swirling and shaking strong liquors. That's all. I was told a better indicator of quality is...

All of JaRiMi's suggestions are excellent. In my line of work i organize, and attend tastings of every size, quite often (6-8 a month?). From personal experience the smaller, more focused tastings are the tastings that are more enjoyable, and informative (or perhaps instructional to the palate). So ...

I stumbled upon this interesting article about flavour wheels . Well, Le Roturier, you've done it again! Keep stumbling... Fantastic article, thank you for sharing. What is your opinion of those charts? Should Rum have one? i think that the charts are fantastic, simplistic, but fantastic; having on...

It's impossible to grasp the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system without first fully understand the concept of terroir , the French belief that the land imparts a unique quality, not reproducible elsewhere. A mix between (esoteric) chauvinism and marketing opportunism.[/i] Le Roturier, i H...

One thing I thought of adding, as I looked at 10 cane rum - a rhum agricole from Trinidad, albeit the manufacturers, being french, seemingly avoid naming calling it so. Food for thought. Marketing is an interesting thing! Well, this brings up what is to me, the crux of all of these exchanges- which...

but still the actual AOC refers just to a PLACE ALWAYS. "Apellacion d'Originee Controlee Rhum Agricole Martinique" - Martinique IS a place, therefore the statement makes sense here, referring to the origin, i.e. - place. Well, to beleaguer a pathetically small point "Appellation d’origine contrôlée...

Well think whatever you'd like. There is less than 50 AOC cheeses, and 500 cheeses in France-- that doesn't mean if it's not AOC it sucks... it means if it is not AOC, it is NOT AOC. To be an AOC whatever, rules are set, and must be observed---- again does not make it better, it is what it is. Marke...

Plantation Grand Reserve is not Rhum Agricole-- at this time none of the rums from Plantation are Rhum Agricole, or even distilled using similar methods to Rhum Agricole.It is as the illustrious Capn Jimbo, so plaintively postulated "perhaps they are using the term exceptionally broadly (all rums te...