3 Summer-Ready Rums to Try

By Friday, May 1, 2015

Rum is an obvious choice when it comes to warm-weather cocktails, but navigating the vast sea of excellent (and some not so great) offerings can be daunting. Thankfully, most gorgeous, brown sugar-brushed rums fit neatly into three styles: French, Spanish and English, or rhum, ron and rum, respectively. “Rum has such a vast spectrum of flavor, ...

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 ...

Spirit tasting at Chicago Botanic Garden

By Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Chicago Botanic Garden will debut Lift Your Spirits: Craft Spirits Tasting at the Garden will take place from 6-8 p.m. March 8 inside the Regenstein Center. The event will allow attendees to savor and understand more about the art of craft spirits. Connoisseurs, novices and mixologists alike can sample an array of spirits crafted by ...