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The latest posts, reviews, and news from the Memphis Rum Club.

2023 Quarter 4 report

2023 Q4 Memphis Quarterly Market Report

What's new in Memphis for Q4 of 2023

Sample bottle of The Exclusive Rums Caroni 1997 next to a glass of rum

Review #138: The Exclusive Rums Caroni 1997

The HTR marque this rum bears is known to provide tire fire and rubber notes

Sample bottle of Mhoba Peated on a tabletop next to a glencairn with rum poured in it

Review #137: Mhoba Peated

This South African rum was aged in casks formerly containing peated whisky

A bottle of Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection next to a glencairn of rum on a table

Review #136: Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection 11 year - Lincoln Road Single Barrel

A pure column still, cask strength rum from Saint Lucia Distiller's flagship brand

A bottle of Treaty Oak Single Barrel No. 334 next to a glencairn of rum

Review #135: Treaty Oak Barrel Reserve Rum - Barrel No. 344

One of the Texas-based distillery's dwindling supply of rum barrels

A sample bottle of Tale of Two Islands next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #134: Barrell Tale of Two Islands

Funky Jamaican rum meets an Islay scotch cask in this critically-acclaimed release

Bottle of Hamilton West Indies Blend next to a glass of rum

Review #133: Hamilton West Indies 1670 Blend

Ed Hamilton used rums from two well-known distilleries to produce this blend

A bottle of Foursquare Covenant next to a glencairn of rum on a tabletop

Review #132: Foursquare Covenant

At 18 years, this edges out Isonomy as the oldest ECS bottling to date

Bottle of Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #131: Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve

Molasses processed in the estate's sugar factory was used for this release

A bottle of Privateer DD Nexus next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #130: Privateer Distiller's Drawer - "Nexus"

New American Oak and Rye casks helped shape the profile of this cask strength rum