We will pour an ounce, side-by-side with a contemporary bottle, for $6.50
Our last rum was a Spanish style rum from Panama. This week we will pour a rum in the English style, from the island of Barbados. Tradition has it that rum originated on the Island of Barbados. A document dated 1651 from Barbados stated that “…the chief fuddling they make on the island is Rumbullion, also called Kill-Devil, obtained from distilled sugarcanes, a hot, hellish and terrible liquor…”. The oldest Rum distillery in the world (Mount Gay) was established on the island in 1702. Barbados rum has a unique style, considered by many to be archetypal of all rum. It is far from a hellish and terrible liquor, but I have always fancied the name Kill-Devil for rum.
This bottling, like last week's, was purchased in barrel and transported to Scotland for final aging in the cool Scottish climate. All of Samaroli's rums go from a climate more appropriate for a grass skirt to the land of the kilt; and they are the better for it. I have not yet had the 1996 iteration of this rum. It has, in the past, been full of spice and toffee and very rich. I'm excited to open this bottle tomorrow night and I hope you join me.
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