A Rum Business for adventurous Imbibers opens the door to the luxurious exotic world of Don Papa, a high end rum maker from The Philippines When I was a lad, Rum was something to be had with lashings of coke and most probably it’d be white and possibly not something to savour on its own merits. Dark rums seemed to be for rough and tough old seafarer types and taken as a navy ration, or patched and parroted pirates to warm their cockles. However, thankfully, things are rather different now and we are lucky enough to have access to refined…
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Mount Gay Rum, a taste of Barbados in Fitzrovia On being invited to taste Mount Gay’s superb selections of rum I was intrigued, as I have to admit – rather embarrassingly – to being something of a rum virgin. Until now, my very limited experience of the spirit began and ended in copious glasses of rum and coke one French holiday as a 15 year old in the Dordogne. However, I knew that it’s been the drink of choice for pirates, and until relatively recently, navy’s around the world have given a daily tot to their sailors as a matter…