Post #739938 by AdOrAdam on Mon, Mar 23, 2015 3:56 PM

Id also been wondering about this article, regardless of the title & rums featured in the picture, I took the article to be '6 rums that are recommended' rather than this is all you need - I don't think 6 rums is enough!

I thought it was interesting that it had a link to Latitude 29's rum list & that was only 22 bottles long - that's not a bad thing but I was surprised at their choice of bottles:

Dark:

• Clement Grand Reserve 10-Year
• Neisson Reserve Speciale
• Rhum J.M. VSOP
• Hamilton Demerara
• Samaroli Demerara 1988
• Mount Gay Extra Old
• Samaroli Agricole 1998

Gold:

• El Dorado Single Barrel 7P
• Barbancourt 15-Year
• Don Q Gran Anejo
• Clement Cuvee Homere
• Neisson Eleve Sous Bois
• English Harbor 5-Year
• Banks 7 Gold
• Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold
• Smith & Cross
• Ministry of Rum St Lucia 7-year
• Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Cask

White:

• Clement Canne Bleue
• Plantation 3 Star
• Cana Brava
• Bacardi Heritage Limited Edition

I can admit to having tried only 4 of the rums on the list so I cant speak to the quality of most of that list but they are 'names that you know' that are reputed to be good.

The selection makes me think...

What would you use in a Coconaut or Nui Nui?

One is invented by the Bum, the other is often mentioned as a drink he recommends.

Obviously you could sub around (e.g. a Jamaican / Demerara combo for a Coconaut or Don Q for a VI rum in the Nui Nui) but I was surprised to not see no Cruzan Gold / Flor De Cana / Appleton 12 / Coruba (i.e. solid mixers) on the list or any overproofs - there are a lot of agricoles (6 + Barbancourt) & no truely dark Jamaican (Corbua / Myers / Kohala Bay / Appleton 12).

There is another post about Jeff Berry & Stephen Remsberg combining 4 non Jamaican rums to make substitute a gold Jamaican rum... but a good dark Jamaican rum straight out of the bottle is hard to beat.

The article does mention that Latitude 29 does stock 'a handful of value bottles in the well' so maybe the list of 6 / 22 bottles is just their sipping portfolio.

Here's another list (from a few years ago) that Jeff Berry contributed '10 essential rums' to, he selected:

• Lemon Hart 151
• El Dorado 5 year
• Appleton Estate Extra
• Appleton Reserve or V/X
• Clement VSOP
• Flor De Cana Extra Dry white
• Flor De Cana 5 year or 7 year gold
• Barbancourt 5 star
• Cockspur Fine rum
• Old New Orleans spiced

None if the rums match but the Latitude 29 list has several more premium (more expensive) versions of similar rums (eg Clement VSOP becomes the 10 year, Barbancourt 8 year is replaced by the 15 year). That's more like what I was expecting - a mixing focused selection.

So maybe Latitude 29 have a 'selection' of well rums that they makes a good quantity of the drinks with - anyone visited & tried a few? :)