Category: Review
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Great Shearwater Jamaica 13yr 2011
Though it doesn’t say so on the bottle, this is Worthy Park distillate. The marque given on the bottle, “JMWP,” has been connected to the distillery’s marque WPM, which has a reported ester count between 120-239 gr/hlpa.
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Great Shearwater Rum Trinidad 14yr 2009 (Rye Finished)
This rum, a single cask of marque TDBS, was crafted at Trinidad Distillers Limited in December of 2009. It was aged five years in Trinidad, followed by an additional nine years of aging in Europe. It was then finished in a rye whiskey cask—unfortunately, I don’t know how long it spent in that cask—and bottled…
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Great Shearwater Rum Trinidad 14yr 2010
Great Shearwater Rum will be releasing three new products for the Kentucky market in August. Up first, a TDL from 2010.
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Transcontinental Rum Line Trinidad 2002 Friendship Cask
For the final entry in this quick series, we’ll cover a cult classic of American rum geekery: TCRL’s 2002 Friendship Cask. Its name comes from the fact that the cask was split between the Florida Rum Society and Rumchester.
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Compagnie Des Indes TDL 2003 20yr
This rum was distilled from molasses in April of 2003, aged in an ex-bourbon barrel, and bottled in August of 2023. I’m guessing based on the color that this spent a good portion of its maturation in France.