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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $43.68
This rich, silky sipper entices with caramel and vanilla aromas. The palate opens with deep toffee and caramel and a...
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95
UBC
94
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.62
Classic aromas of tropical fruits, spice, and funk are balanced and inviting. Sweet-tart in the mouth, flavors of...
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97
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93
Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.64
Straw yellow colour with golden reflections; mellow citrus fruits and delicate vanilla floral notes fill the nose; to...
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $30.00
A richly flavoursome rum from the Philippines, inspired by the story of Papa Isio, who played a big part in the...
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.80 $51.40
Opening nosing pass shows deft touches of caramel, honey and molasses. Palate entry is dry to off-dry and mildly...
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Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $44.36 $46.70
This nut-brown rum is scented with sweet vanilla and baking spices, though it shows a hit of booziness on the nose....
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92
UBC
91
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $22.99
Very Good, Strong Recommendation - 2020 ULTIMATE SPIRITS CHALLENGE
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89
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $64.99
Amber color. Aromas of caramelized nuts, dried tropical fruits, leather-bound wood, and lit beeswax candle with a...
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94
UBC
93
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White
750ml
Bottle: $21.45
Aromas of guava, tangerine and peanut. Medium-bodied with plenty of herbal character. Citrus acidity and a subtle...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $29.01
Intense and typical nose of rich yellow apples, lemon peel and mineral undertones. Very fresh on the palate, pithy...
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90
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Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $29.99
This assertive rum shows a beguiling nose of baked banana, lemon custard, roasted pineapple, and spun brown sugar....
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96
Rapid Ship
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $28.79
Select Barrel is aged in particular oak barrels selected for their rich natural sweetness and intense aromatic...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $34.94 $36.08
The nosing passes find mature smells of men's club leather chairs, old books, molasses, honey, milk chocolate and...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.27 $49.76
Pouring a light mahogany with scarlet streaks, this rum offers a decadent bouquet of candied nuts, dried plum, and...
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94
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $55.58 $58.51
Dark amber color with copper hues. The aroma transports one to a rum cellar filled with the essence of oak. Balanced...
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It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.

Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.

The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.