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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

A bottle of La Maison & Velier Flag Series Trinidad next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #129: Flag Series Trinidad 2002 20 year

The next long-aged entry into the project from La Maison & Velier

A bottle of La Maison & Velier Flag Series Guyana next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #128: Flag Series Guyana 1998 24 year

This Demerara rum spent over two decades aging in Port casks

A bottle of Rum Fire next to a glass of rum on a tabletop

Review #127: Rum Fire

Don't let the metal album-style label fool you– this rum is the real deal

A sample bottle of Kill Devil Guadeloupe 1998 next to a glass of rum on a table

Review #126: Kill Devil Guadeloupe 1998 Bellevue 20 year

This Bellevue vintage sees another review, this time from a Scottish independent bottler