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> Well, Rum Runner, it's just a matter of taste, obviously to the
> palate an "industrial " rum is more delicate than an aggressive and
> usually strong "agricole", I think "agricole" is a rum you love or
> just hate it, but it can be a pleasant experience drunk mixed rather
> than neat, and I mean in drinks like "Ti punch", "Planteur",
> "Caipirissima", "Daiquiri a l'orange" etc..
Indeed, I am sure they can be used best in drinks perhaps - but as you say,
yes it is very much a matter of taste.
> As for the "Negrita", is something, like I always say,I wouldn't
> offer to my worst enemy !!
We are in full agreement in this matter! It is firewater extraordinnaire...!
> The Havana Club is 7 years old, there's actually no 8 yo, but there's
> on the market a remarkable 15 yo. What about Haiti's own agricole,
> "Barbancourt" ?
> Cheers
> Dom Costa
Have not had the pleasure of tasting the 15 yo Havana Club -
Barbancourt...well according to some, world's best rum...it is definitely good
and perhaps one of the best representatives of the particular style (certainly
best I've tasted). The 15 year old which I have tasted carries some strong
buttery flavours that are not so to my taste - but I would not go and say its
not good, its a fine sipping rum. Its just that I prefer more depth and volume
in the body - a dark demerara for example matches that. I admit being a fan of
ex-British West Indies rums, the style and palate suits me fine.
Angostura 1824 was tasted in a recent rum tasting I had the pleasure to host
and it was generally noted as remarkably complex rum, but some found it more
"difficult" than say the 15 yo El Dorado. The nose is sweet but taste
remarkably dry, then one experiences the oiliness, spiciness and the taste of
orange peel and such details...we all agreed, this was the ultimate cigar rum!
I also found that if one likes Pedro Ximenez finished whisky (quite dry and
overtones of roasted coffee) this rum would probably please such a person
immensely. I would recommend trying this product, and then giving it some
time, trying it again, because the fact that its so different from any other
rum I have tasted at least may at first affect your judgement, but on 2nd time
the experience is even better.
Last night tried a New Zealand bottled rum called Black Heart - origins of the
rums blended are unknown to me - not a bad product for the price, quite
pleasing. Most people in New Zealand are bananas about their wines, and in
this triumphant march of the wines beer consuption in this country has gone
down considerably.
A particularly sad detail is that Lammerlaw, the Single Malt Whisky made in
the World's Southernmost distillery at Dunedin, North Island, is of no more.
The manufacturing of this fine product has ended and Wilson's only makes a
blended whisky now. Another fine product disappears from the world...sad.
RumRunner