Quick Fire Rum Tasting Notes

Old Bakery Rum

Re-Distilled Jamaican Rum

41% ABV

Nose: An initial umph-ette of unmistakable Jamaican rum esters, ripe banana skin, orange peel, dried apricots, date heavy sticky toffee pudding and blackberry compote. Followed by notes of boiled condensed milk, Lyle’s golden syrup, anise, demerara sugar, dark chocolate, mixed spice, tobacco leaves, ground black pepper, wood spice and a tenacious tease of plum wine.

Palate: A wondrous wedge of banoffee pie, treacle tart served with a scoop of Häagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche ice cream, Delia Smith’s Creole Christmas cake, honey, mixed spice, espresso coffee and dark chocolate. Along with notes of preserved lemons, orange peel, dried banana chips, maraschino cherries, blackberry compote, baked apples, cinnamon, tobacco leaves, nutmeg and something rather Port-esque.

Finish: A deep, dark and decadent dessert trolley of a finish, that lingers long into the night.

Summary: This is a real tamed tiger of a Jamaican rum, which after being re-distilled and matured in Mead and Mavrodaphne (black grape wine from Greece/Cyprus) oak barrels, delivers something that is sensationally smooth and sumptuously sippable!

We’re huge fans of what the Old Bakery Distillery, in Enfield, North London is doing. Their gin is now one of our top three go to’s in the category, and now they’ve rustled up this rather rum-arkable, re-distilled drop of Jamaican rummage.

Very much looking forward to seeing what distilled delights they come up with next. A whisky matured/finished in the same types of cask, could quite possibly be a very wonderful thing! 

Loch Lomond Whiskies Tweet Tasting

To help celebrate their second year as the official spirit of The Open Golf Championship, we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that on June 12th, we’ll be teaming up again with our good friends at Loch Lomond Whiskies, to share, sip and savour some very special drops of dramspankage.

On the night, we’ll be pouring and exploring Loch Lomond’s four The Open special editions; The Open Special Edition, Single Malt Vintage 2002, The Open Royal Portrush and 25 Year Old Triple Wood Matured.

If you fancy taking part in a rare opportunity to sample all four of Loch Lomond's The Open special editions click here to register your interest by emailing your name, address, date of birth and Twitter handle, remembering to mark the subject line: #LochLomondWhisky

The closing date to register is May 20th, and if you are registering to take part please make sure that you will actually be free on the evening of June 12th to take part!

Even if you're not one of the selected Tweet Tasters, it'd be great to have you following all the evenings dramspankery. So we look forward to seeing you over on Twitter on June 12th at 7pm BST via #LochLomondWhisky

Registration open to over 21's only!

For more info on Loch Lomond Whiskies, visit: lochlomondwhiskies.com

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El Dorado Rum Tweet Tasting II

Continuing our teeming throng of industry leading, Twitter trending Tweet Tastings, and following the huge success of our last El Dorado Rum event back in November, we’re thrilled to announce that on June 5th, we’ll be hosting another evening of tweet tastery, filled with their demerara deliciousness.

 

Full details to follow, but if you fancy sharing, sipping and savouring some truly outstanding drops of rummage click here to register your interest by emailing your name, address, date of birth and Twitter handle, remembering to mark the subject line: #ElDoradoRum

Not only will the night provide an amazing opportunity for existing rum lovers to get up, close and personal with some of the Guyana’s finest, it will also provide the perfect bridging opportunity for those yet to discover the deep depths and delights of this other sensational spirit.

The closing date to register is May 14th, and if you are registering to take part please make sure that you will actually be free on the evening of June 5th to take part!

Even if you're not one of the selected Tweet Tasters, it'd be great to have you following all the evenings rumfotainment. So we look forward to seeing you over on Twitter on June 5th at 19:00 BST via #ElDoradoRum

 

Registration open to over 21's only!

 

For more info on El Dorado Rum, visit: theeldoradorum.com

 

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Aerstone Whisky Tweet Tasting

More social media based dramfotainment you say? Well allow us to very gladly oblige!

 

We’re dramspankingly delighted to announce that on May 22nd, we’re teaming up again with our good friends at William Grant & Sons, to share, sip and savour the first two releases from their Aerstone single malt Scotch whisky range.

 

Launched in September 2018, the Aerstone range is said to showcase two different styles of whisky under the same brand (a classic Speyside and a rich and smoky style) allowing consumers to easily understand the spectrum of flavours and demystify the traditional and often complex language associated with the category.

 

Full details to follow soon, but if you fancy taking part in what promises to be an epic evening of dramfotainment click here to register your interest by emailing your name, address and Twitter handle, remembering to mark the subject line: #AerstoneWhisky

 

The closing date to register is May 3rd, and if you are registering to take part please make sure that you will actually be free on the evening of May 22nd to take part!

 

Even if you're not one of the selected Tweet Tasters, it'd be great to have you following all the evenings dramspankery. So we look forward to seeing you over on Twitter on May 22nd at 7pm BST via #AerstoneWhisky

 

Registration open to over 21's only!

 

For more information on Aerstone, visit: aerstonescotchwhisky.com
 

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