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Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $17.94
Bananas foster, maple baked oatmeal, and banana bread batter are indulgent aromas. The flavor follows through with...
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94
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93
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $30.00
A rich and delicious bouquet, accented by smoky notes and aromas of tropical fruit, pineapple, citrus peel, and a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.13 $24.35
A brilliantly ester-y and high toned rum with exotic fruit flavors of green pineapple, molasses cookie, and brown...
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93
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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: $25.94 $27.40
The bouquet is charmingly understated with subtle scents of yellow fruit pulp, toffee, milk chocolate and vanilla...
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95
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $37.54
The nosing passes find mature smells of men's club leather chairs, old books, molasses, honey, milk chocolate and...
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Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $22.80 $24.00
Flavors of vanilla and oak with hints of clove and cinnamon spices
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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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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $37.99 $43.42
Rather than use a neutral base spirit like most flavored products, we select a delicious five-year-old rum whose...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $43.20
12 bottles: $41.04
Chairman’s Reserve The Forgotten Casks is an extra-aged sipping rum crafted to mimic rum found in the original...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $29.18 $30.72
Stroh 160 Proof Rum is an Austrian Overproof Spiced Rum, and is one of the more famous spirits hailing from Austria....

Rum Seyval Blanc Rapid Ship

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.