Fantastic video. This year is such a huge growth for rum. There are many contenders for best rum 2024 that has yet to come out and I hope it lands on the list atleast such as 8 marks ex-bourbon.
i’ll be picking up a bottle of pagos before the month’s end. given your video on it and some other reviews i have seen, it should be a treat for me and my taste preferences in rum. i am fortunate enough to have access to it before it inevitably goes out of stock forever. amazing video as always, arminder. i’m really looking forward to what the second half of the year has in store.
Enjoy the Pagos! Yeah, this year has been a pretty great year for rum, and we're only halfway through. Looking forward to more goodies for the remaining 6 months.
Epic stuff. My new favorite distillery is TDL. Had some recent single cask bottling that were just an absolute explosion of tropical fruit and sweet dark notes. (Boutique-y 17yo and Up Spirits Club 14yo)
I've been working my way through the Hampden 8 Marks Collection from lowest to highest ester count, and the last one I tasted was the HLCF. Looking forward to cracking open the H and HGML tonight.
@@therumrevival Update: I agree! They both had strong aromas of nail polish remover/ paint thinner, but the HGML had a nice sweet fruitiness on both the nose and the palette.
So picks of the year thus far: The ELD High Ester. The Great House 2023 HSE Foret de Montpensier (no 1 so far) HSE Small Cask 2016 Pere Labat Insula Nox 2013 Outlier Millions of Peaches. (The single biggest surprise of the TWE show this past weekend. A crazy rum, which tastes like no other Rum I own)
Oh man, I'm so bummed I didn't go to TWE this year. I really can't wait to try the Millions of Peaches. Also, I wish we got more stuff like those HSE and PEre Labat releases here in the states.
Sadly, we don't get most of the better quality Agricoles in the UK either. However, Exellance Rhum in Paris diliver (at a price) to the UK. I believe that they ship to the US.
The best I've had is Foursquare Master Series Edition No. 3. I wish I had more newer options available. Atlanta/American South has more representation for bourbon. I get why bourbon overcame rum from a cost/availability a century ago, but rum and rum cocktails pair better with southern cuisine and have a deeper history in colonial America.
I’ve been eyeing the No. 3, might have to buy it now. Can’t really go wrong with Foursquare. And yeah, I wish distribution was much more even throughout the country
I hope we see more sugarcane rums aged in tequila barrels - The few that have been released are impossible to find - I know there were some bottles of Paranubes anejo aged in tequila barrels, but that's long gone.
