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Impressive display there, JaRiMi.

Thank you again, I am quite pleased with my purchase from Beijing myself, in all honesty.

Blessed be all wives who do not mind such a cabinet in the living quarters of their husband 8and family)!!

One can really get custom-made furniture in Beijing for very reasonable prices, provided that some chinese-speaking person assists them - because very few chinese carpenters speak english. Cost of transport is another thing to bear in mind, but if one can pool up with others who order things from the country and share the cost of a container, even this expense is not too unreasonable.

I could have gotten this kind of a cabinet in any size, finish, design possible, but decided that rosewood and the design I chose was adequate for my purposes. Main thing is the functionality & look inside, and with halogen lamps up, a mirror in the back, with 1.2 cm glass shelves that allow light to shine through, and shelvers/glassholders matching my glassware and needs I rather think it is a success.

Still missing a few, but it's getting there...

Lovely collection of Havana Club products!

Nice! I see you still haven't dared to open the Cristobal and HC 15 . All you need now is the Añejo Reserva and Maximo!

You'll have to wait a bit for my photo (which will still bit a tad smallish). I have just ordered a pair of Havana Club Anejo Especials and a pair of HC 7yo's. When that appears, I'll put everything together and photograph it.


edit: just received my order. Only had 1 7yo in it because thats all the supplier had. oh well.

Now I just need to put the collection together and photograph it.

edit: My rum collection:




If I did Whisk(e)y or even my entire collection of alcohol, it would be much larger.

I am presently looking for a suitable display for my rum collection. Without a picture I can only show a list. I live in western Canada and find that many great rums are not available here and have to either travel myself or rely on friends to bring me new additions. we have one advantage over our neibours to the south is that we can travel to Cuba directly.

here is my list.

Angostura 1824 12 Yr Trinidad & Tobago
Angostura 1919 8 Yr Trinidad & Tobago
Appleton Estates Extra Jamaica
Appleton Estates Master Blenders Legacy Jamaica
Appleton Estates Reserve Jamaica
Arecha Ron Anejo Cuba
Barcardi 8 Puerto Rico
Barrows Grand Reserve France
Bundaberg Australia
Bundaberg Distiller's Number 3 Australia
Captain Morgan Deluxe Canada
Cockspur 12
Barbados
Cruzan Single Barrel St Croix
D'aristi Mexico
El Dorado Special Reserve 15 Guyana
El Dorado Special Reserve 21 Guyana
Flor de Cana Black Label 5 Yr Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario 12 Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario 21 Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario Gold Nicaragua
Havana Club 5 Yr Cuba
Havana Club 7 yr Cuba
Havana Club Barrel Proof Cuba
Havana Club Gran Reserva 15 Yr Cuba
Havana Club San Cristobal Cuba
Legendario 7 Yr Cuba
Legendario Elixir 7 Yr Cuba
Mocambo 20 Yr Mexico
Montecristo 12 Yr Guatemala
Mount Gay Eclipse Barbados
Mount Gay Extra Old Barbados
Murray McDavid Guyana Rum Guyana
No.1 McDowell's Celebration XXX Rum India
Oronoco Brazil
Pussers British Virgin Islands
Pyrat XO Reserve British West Indies
Rhum Barbancourt 15 Yr Haiti
Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva 15 Yr Dominican Republic
Ron Pampero Seleccion 1938 Venezuela
Ron Santiago Anejo Cuba
Ron Santiago Anejo Superior 11 Yr Cuba
Ron Solera Mulata Cuba
Ron Vigia Gran Anejo 15 Yr Cuba
Ron Zacapa Centenario Solera 23 Guatemala
Saint James Hors D'Age Martinique
Santa Teresa 1796 Venezuela
Tommy Bahama Barbados
Zaya 12 Yr Guatemala

Dacaqa Fe Noyetuxuhe wrote:You'll have to wait a bit for my photo (which will still bit a tad smallish). I have just ordered a pair of Havana Club Anejo Especials and a pair of HC 7yo's. When that appears, I'll put everything together and photograph it.


edit: just received my order. Only had 1 7yo in it because thats all the supplier had. oh well.

Now I just need to put the collection together and photograph it.

edit: My rum collection:




If I did Whisk(e)y or even my entire collection of alcohol, it would be much larger.

Its a good start, those are good rums you got there. I tried the V/X at the Rum Fest and thought it was pretty good on its own even though the producer intends it as a mixer for finer cocktails.

Calgaryx wrote:I am presently looking for a suitable display for my rum collection. Without a picture I can only show a list. I live in western Canada and find that many great rums are not available here and have to either travel myself or rely on friends to bring me new additions. we have one advantage over our neibours to the south is that we can travel to Cuba directly.

here is my list.

Angostura 1824 12 Yr Trinidad & Tobago
Angostura 1919 8 Yr Trinidad & Tobago
Appleton Estates Extra Jamaica
Appleton Estates Master Blenders Legacy Jamaica
Appleton Estates Reserve Jamaica
Arecha Ron Anejo Cuba
Barcardi 8 Puerto Rico
Barrows Grand Reserve France
Bundaberg Australia
Bundaberg Distiller's Number 3 Australia
Captain Morgan Deluxe Canada
Cockspur 12
Barbados
Cruzan Single Barrel St Croix
D'aristi Mexico
El Dorado Special Reserve 15 Guyana
El Dorado Special Reserve 21 Guyana
Flor de Cana Black Label 5 Yr Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario 12 Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario 21 Nicaragua
Flor de Cana Centenario Gold Nicaragua
Havana Club 5 Yr Cuba
Havana Club 7 yr Cuba
Havana Club Barrel Proof Cuba
Havana Club Gran Reserva 15 Yr Cuba
Havana Club San Cristobal Cuba
Legendario 7 Yr Cuba
Legendario Elixir 7 Yr Cuba
Mocambo 20 Yr Mexico
Montecristo 12 Yr Guatemala
Mount Gay Eclipse Barbados
Mount Gay Extra Old Barbados
Murray McDavid Guyana Rum Guyana
No.1 McDowell's Celebration XXX Rum India
Oronoco Brazil
Pussers British Virgin Islands
Pyrat XO Reserve British West Indies
Rhum Barbancourt 15 Yr Haiti
Ron Matusalem Gran Reserva 15 Yr Dominican Republic
Ron Pampero Seleccion 1938 Venezuela
Ron Santiago Anejo Cuba
Ron Santiago Anejo Superior 11 Yr Cuba
Ron Solera Mulata Cuba
Ron Vigia Gran Anejo 15 Yr Cuba
Ron Zacapa Centenario Solera 23 Guatemala
Saint James Hors D'Age Martinique
Santa Teresa 1796 Venezuela
Tommy Bahama Barbados
Zaya 12 Yr Guatemala

Wow, that is an impressive rum collection you got there! I can't wait to see it displayed nicely. I am looking for a new display as well at the moment but it looks like I will have to go to a carpenter and have one built according to my specifications.

What do you think of the Pampero Seleccion 1938 and is your Pyrat XO the old Planters Gold version or the one with a different label?

That cabinet...i want it to move to my livingroom!

Here are a few pics of my little collection, and the rest is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13618264@N ... 058506140/

I like your bamboo shelf, an apt background for a rum collection. Where did you get it? Also, nice collection of demeraras.

Fantastic photos of a fantastic collection Tiare!! Amazingly beautiful artwork also on some of the labels, I must say.


How is the Banks XM tasting? http://www.flickr.com/photos/13618264@N ... 058506140/

And the Uitluvgt 1990?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13618264@N ... 058506140/

The XM10 is very yummy,full bodied, round, with lots of toffee-like flavor.
The XM12 Millenium lacks much of that toffee-like flavor and is less sweet, a bit lighter.

I have written about these rums on my blog in demerara part one, and i post part two in a few days, it will cover XM10, 12, Samaroli and OVD.

The Uitvlugt is a heavy overproof demerara, very woody, very strong and very nice.

http://amountainofcrushedice.wordpress.com/

Didn't notice you had the Millennium! Didn't even know there was a Millennium! Where did you find that gem?

I bought it from the German EBay, it was rum ambassador who told me about that rum.

Thanks for sharing the information and photos Tiare!! If you are interested in tasting the Tanduay Philippines rums, perhaps I can send you a sample one day.

I am looking forward to getting some more rums, this month, with the english pound's currency rate so low, I went and spent so much money on whisky however that my rum acquisitions will simply have to wait

Very nice blog also, good information there!!!

JaRiMi, i would love to review a phillippine rum and write about it on my blog.

BTW, where did you find such a rum cabinet?

The cabinet is from Beijing where it was custom-made according my own specifications. Cost? Ridiculously small...Even shipped home, it was well worth it. They will make basically any kind of similar cabinet, whatever finish, wood type, style. I'm quite happy with it because I did not want it to look like "fake " antique, but instead new - and the inside is completely according my specs, so if there's anything wrong with that, I can only blame myself.

As I said, the only thing I'd change is the size, make it even bigger - but then again it would take up too much space perhaps.

Be happy that I´m not your wife, i would have taken over the cabinet.

tiare wrote:Be happy that I´m not your wife, i would have taken over the cabinet.

As long as it's rum you would want to put in it, I would have no objections!

Things have got a little messed up here after the server died and I couldn't produce a backup copy. My rum collection also pretty much reset itself to 0 after I had to leave it to Finland.

I have been able to start a small rum collection in Australia with some goodies:



Shelf includes:
Cockspur 5 Star
Mount Gilboa
Mount Gay XO
Mount Gay 1703
Mount Gay Tricentennial
Green Island
Starr African
Old Grog
Woods 100
Atlantico
Plantation Rum Panama 2000
Cadenheads 1975 Green Label Demerara
A dash of Appleton 30

nice one, Count!

i heard on the grapevine (no pun intended) that you shipped overseas...something about an unpaid debt and a man with a purple face was it? lol

I hope you're settled in down under and there DOES seem to be a glitch or two with the old website but no matter. Are you as fond as whisky as you are the Rum?? I'm afraid my rum collection amounts top no more than an unopened bottle of Pussers as recommended by my sailor Cousin. As for my whisky collection, well that's a different matter!
Regards
Ma Capp (Lord Sint Ellins) -what happened to Lord Cragabus??

Lord Sint Ellins wrote:nice one, Count!

i heard on the grapevine (no pun intended) that you shipped overseas...something about an unpaid debt and a man with a purple face was it? lol

I hope you're settled in down under and there DOES seem to be a glitch or two with the old website but no matter. Are you as fond as whisky as you are the Rum?? I'm afraid my rum collection amounts top no more than an unopened bottle of Pussers as recommended by my sailor Cousin. As for my whisky collection, well that's a different matter!
Regards
Ma Capp (Lord Sint Ellins) -what happened to Lord Cragabus??

Hello and welcome to the forums!

I did indeed ship overseas, I was seduced by a woman of great beauty and intellect.

I have been working most of the time and I am just beginning to relax and settle down a bit. The problems with the website were caused by the destruction of my old server that apparently literally caught fire!

The main site should be up and running very very soon, however and I have improved all the sections and images and article formatting so the overall experience should be better.

I am quite fond of Whisky as well and I should review more, in fact in the near future there should be a review of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. I really should get my hands on some single malts though. And please post your whisky collection here if you want to!

As for Lord Cragabus, I think that account was destroyed by the fire, I was able to load a dusty year old backup of the forums so there might be some accounts and definitely a load of posts missing.

Things will be a little quiet here at the forums for a while but once I relaunch the main site more posts will quickly start appearing here.

My current holdings of rum is listed below. This is from my 31 January 2010 liquor inventory. I have since added a few more bottles but have also drained a few. These are cached around the house so getting a pick of them in one place would be hard but we can use out imagination.....!

V. Rum
R.L. Seales 86proof 750ml Barbados = 1
Cockspur 80proof 750ml Barbados= 1
Doorlys XO 80proof 750ml Barbados= 8(1open)
1 Barrel 80pr 750ml Belize 1(open)
Barbancourt 8yo 5star 80pr 750ml Haiti= 8(1open)
Plantation Rum Grand Reserve 80pr 750ml Barbados= 1
El Dorado Demerara 80pr 750ml= 1(open)
El Dorado 5yo Demerara 80pr 750ml= 2
El Dorado 12yo 80pr 750ml = 1
El Dorado 15yo 80 pr 750ml= 1
Ron Zacapa 23yo 80pr 750ml= 1
Mount Gay Extra Old 86pr 750ml= 11
Appleton Estate VX 80pr 1.75l= 1
Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos= 5
Havana Club Silver 80pr 750ml.= 3
Angostura 5yo Gold 750ml= 1
Angostura 1919 8yo 80pr 750ml= 2
Pampero Aniversario 80pr 750ml = 1
Pyrat XO 80pr 750ml= 1
Bacardi 8yo 80pr 1liter= 1(open)

What?! You mean you actually save rum? Here's where my 150 bottles are stored...



BTW, welcome back Count and a big hello to some of my favorite people: the inimitable JaRiMi, the Dood, Scottes, MJL, and Paulipbartender.

MJL wrote:My current holdings of rum is listed below. This is from my 31 January 2010 liquor inventory. I have since added a few more bottles but have also drained a few. These are cached around the house so getting a pick of them in one place would be hard but we can use out imagination.....!

V. Rum
R.L. Seales 86proof 750ml Barbados = 1
Cockspur 80proof 750ml Barbados= 1
Doorlys XO 80proof 750ml Barbados= 8(1open)
1 Barrel 80pr 750ml Belize 1(open)
Barbancourt 8yo 5star 80pr 750ml Haiti= 8(1open)
Plantation Rum Grand Reserve 80pr 750ml Barbados= 1
El Dorado Demerara 80pr 750ml= 1(open)
El Dorado 5yo Demerara 80pr 750ml= 2
El Dorado 12yo 80pr 750ml = 1
El Dorado 15yo 80 pr 750ml= 1
Ron Zacapa 23yo 80pr 750ml= 1
Mount Gay Extra Old 86pr 750ml= 11
Appleton Estate VX 80pr 1.75l= 1
Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos= 5
Havana Club Silver 80pr 750ml.= 3
Angostura 5yo Gold 750ml= 1
Angostura 1919 8yo 80pr 750ml= 2
Pampero Aniversario 80pr 750ml = 1
Pyrat XO 80pr 750ml= 1
Bacardi 8yo 80pr 1liter= 1(open)

11 Bottles of MGXO!

How do you find the Havana Club Silver? I haven't had the chance to find one as of yet.

This is my current collection of rums.
all bottles are open, except for the Mocambo art edicion.

Barcelo Gran Anejo
Matusalem Gran Reserva
Zacapa Centenario 15 Y.O
Zacapa 23 Solera Gran Reserva
Zacapa Centenario X.O.
XM 5 Anos
Sea Wynde
Secret Treasures Old Demerara Single Cask 1989
Secret Treasures Old Barbados Single Cask 1995
El Dorado 12 Y.O.
El Dorado Special Reserve 15 Y.O.
El Dorado Special Reserve 21 Y.O.
Savanna Rhum Grand Arome Single Cask
Appleton Estate V/X
Appleton Reserve 8 Y.O.
Appleton Estate Extra 12 Y.O.
Mocambo Single Barrel 15 Anos
Mocambo Single Barrel 20 YO Edicion Arte
Flor de Caña Grand Reserve
Flor de Caña Centenario 12 Anos
Flor de Cana Centenario 18 Anos
Malecon Reserva Superior 12 Anos
Chairman's Reserve Extra Old
Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva 12 Anos
Seven Tiki Aged Rum
Pampero Aniversario Reserva Exclusiva
Atlantico Private Cask
Pussers Navy Rum 15 years
Malteco 15 Reserva Maya


3 of these bottles were quiet disappointing because of the bitter or coppery taste.
Rum Sea Wynde - Guyana en Jamaica
Rum Savanna Rhum Grand Arome Single Cask
Pussers Navy Rum 15 years

maybe it's not the rum, but I just need to learn it drink

Wonderful collection Pieter! I am particularily interested in the Secret Treasures rums, where did you get them and how is the taste?

Hi, here are some pics of my living/chilling room:

and some more :

This is just the collection right now, it's expanding quite fast since the start in May of 2010.
Gonna post some more in a few months

Here's some more pics of mixing stuff and so on: