Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

– Ernest Hemingway

English Styled Rums are mostly distilled in the English speaking parts of the Caribbean, Pacific and Australia. These rums are made with molasses, a byproduct of sugar production that makes a lot of these rums a heavier and darker drink. Although the rum making process changes from island to island, most of these rums are made in copper stills and generally have a sweeter and complex flavour even when they are not aged. Our list gives you an incredible sample of the different sub styles with Jamaica, Barbados and St Lucia all creating their distinct style.

When I read about the evils of drinking – I stop reading.

– Henry Youngman

Like the noble Brandy back in the Old World, when the Spanish came to the New World they brought with them a style that was fruity and full of berry and currant flavours. Most Spanish styled ron (rum) uses a technique called Solera, which is the blending of aged and young rums together giving a more consistent flavour from batch to batch. The Spanish style also includes both column and pot stills and when aged the ron takes on many of the characteristics of the barrels they were in. Our Spanish rons come from all over Latin America and you will not be disappointed.

It takes me one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or fourteenth.

– George Burns

French Styled rum, known as Rhum Argicole, and Brazilian styled rum, known as Cachaça, is made from fermented sugar cane juice unlike molasses based rums. This process creates a far more floral style of drink that takes on the interior of the regions that these rhums grow in. Rhum and Cachaça is by far the rarest to get in these parts of the world and thus there are fewer to sample. The list we have created gives a great overview of the major regions of French Rhum in French Speaking Caribbean and the Indian Ocean and Cachaça from Brazil.

• Martinique

  Bally Rhum Agricole 3 Years
  Dillon XO 10 Years
  La Mauny 1749
  La Mauny VSOP
  La Mauny XO
  JM Rhum Blanco
  JM Rhum Agricole XO
  Trios Rivieres Vieux 5 Years
  Trios Rivieres Vieux 8 Years
  St James XO
  Rhum blanc Clement
  Rhum E.S.B Clement “Ambre”
  Premiere Canne
  Select Barrel
  Shrubb
  Mahina Coco
  Clement VSOP
  Rhum Blanc “Gamme Bar” Clement
  Rhum vieux “Single Cask Green” Vanille
  Rhum Vieux Clement XO Prestige
  Rhum Vieux Clement “10 ANS” prestige
  Rhum Vieux Clement “Single Cask” Canne Bleue

• Brazil

  Agua Luca Cachaca
  Germana Cachaca
  Leblon Cachaca
  Cana Rio Cachaca

• Haiti

  Barbancourt Eight Years

• Reunion Island

  Riviere du Mat Grand Reserve
  Riviere du Mat XO

I drink to make other people more interesting.

 – Ernest Hemingway

When rum started to take off back in the 1700’s, rum distillers did not have the processes down to the fine art it is today and in order to mask the ‘spoiled’ batches they added many different spices and fruits to be able to sell them to an unsuspecting public. Today, the spiced rum is one of the largest growing spirit category in the world with many different styles and tastes mixing with all different types of English, Spanish and French styled rums. Below is some of the best and most unique selections the rum world has to offer.