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Rum Features and Reviews

Rum, once the disreputable liquor associated with peg-leg pirates, the slave trade and tiki bars, is emerging as an elegant libation to be sipped and savored. From Zacapa to Appleton Estate, we have features and reviews to help you find the best rums. Be sure to check out our Rum 101 article to learn more about this rich and heady spirit.

Mount Gay Rum Extra Old is a blend of rums aged 8 to 15 years
ROYALE RUM
Mount Gay Rum Extra Old
Made at the oldest continually operating rum distillery in the world, Mount Gay Extra Old is a premium blend of rums aged 8 to 15 years.


AUTHENTIC CARIBBEAN RUM
Vizcaya VXOP Cask 21
Made from sugar cane that is pressed, fermented and distilled, then aged in oak barrels once used to hold bourbon, Vizcaya is a complex and smooth sipping rum.

Vizcaya VXOP Cask 21

A bottle of Banks 5-Island Rum, a mixture of 20 different rums from five areas
TWENTY RUMS, ONE BOTTLE
Banks 5-Island Rum
This smooth, medium-bodied spirit is made from twenty rums from five different rum-producing areas, including Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Java and Guyana.

LEARN MORE ABOUT RUM
Rum 101
What are the categories of rum, and how do they differ from one another? Learn how it's made, as well as how to taste and choose the best rums.
A waiter pours rum into glasses

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