Meet R(h)um’s One Percent

By Tuesday, December 17, 2013

December 13, 2013 story: Wyatt Peabody photo: Peden + Munk From the dank jungle of Martinique to the cool cellars of Cognac, a new wave of high-quality r(h)um is establishing both the depth of the category and its connection to place. The very mention of “rum” conjures immediate imagery: serene tropical islands, bloody revolutions, multinational booze thugs, yacht-rock or ...

Rums That Don’t Need Fruity Mixers

By Thursday, August 8, 2013

After at least a decade in the barrel, rums such as Clément Cuvée Homère and Samaroli have gained the character and complexity of the best whiskeys FOR MANY, rum is the stuff of boat drinks and sea legs, the clear and anodyne vodka of the tropics. At summer's peak, that may feel like enough, but this ...

Clément 1970 | Rum Gallery | Dave Russell

By Thursday, January 10, 2013

Tasting Notes Extremely Smooth. Clément 1970 is the impossibly deep shade of brown that finely polished copper takes on a few days after a patina begins to develop, or that a vintage rhum aged for more than two decades exhibits if well-tended. I’m shaking while preparing to open Clément 1970, the most expensive bottle of rum ever ...

LA Times – Rhum Agricole

By Thursday, May 31, 2012

A quixotic quest to Martinique for the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée spirit made from freshly pressed sugarcane wine  written and produced by WYATT PEABODY / photographs by PEDEN+MUNK One minute you are casually drinking rum with a few friends at a bar in L.A.—next thing you know, you’re frantically seeking passage to an insanely difficult-to-get-to island in ...

Rhum Clement Premiere Canne and ‘Ti Punch

By Thursday, May 10, 2012

Rum is a fun category. Aside from the differences between aged and unaged, there are spiced rums as well as designations to denote from what the spirit is distilled. Rum is usually, but not always, distilled from molasses, which is a sugarcane byproduct. Rum and rum variants can also be distilled from fermented sugar cane ...