Homemade cocktails: ingredients and DIY recipes

In our previous article, we discussed the basic equipment that will allow you to make your cocktails at home. Let's now look at the content, that is to say the ingredients that you will need to have in your bar. With this list, you will be able to make the majority of classic cocktails as well as their derivatives, and you will be able […]

Equiano: Interview with Ian Burrell 2/2

Welcome to our second part of an interview with Ian Burrell, global rum ambassador and co-creator of the first Afro-Caribbean rum: Equiano. Having discussed the birth of the brand, let's now get into the slightly more “geeky” details of the production: The Mauritian part of the blend (Gray's distillery) is 10 years old. […]

What's the best rum?

This is a question that is difficult to answer, as the current offer is immense. We have our own ideas, and each of us has our favorites. But the important thing is that you find YOUR best rum! So when we are asked which are the best rums, we first ask what that means […]

Rum Advent Calendar AH RIISE 2020

The AH Riise 2020 Advent Calendar contains 24 different AH Riise rums. Open a box each day and you'll discover a new AH Riise rum (2 centilitres per rum). If you don't already have one, we recommend you buy a tulip-shaped glass with a narrow neck to concentrate the aromas. [...]

Hubert Corman: interview with a wine merchant-bottler

The arrival of the Corman Collins bottlings on the site is an opportunity for us to discover their creator, Hubert Corman. This essential character from across Quiévrain has been immersed in spirits for several decades and certainly has a lot to tell us. But first, let's let him introduce himself: Hubert Corman, originally from Battice in Belgium, born […]

Cigar & rum combinations

If there is a world that is just as vast as that of rum, it is that of the cigar. Culture, terroir, blending, fermentation, aging, words that seem familiar to these two worlds. The cigar What gives a unique taste to each cigar are the varieties of tobacco and their place of cultivation, […]

Our little rum glossary

Rum has its vocabulary, its jargon, and it is not always easy to navigate. Even seasoned amateurs wonder about notions which can be vague, and therefore sometimes diverted from their true meaning. However, it is important to be able to understand and decipher the labels, as well as the speeches that are sometimes a little […]

Which rum to give?

You want to offer a rum, what a great idea! Here is a gift that works every time. Rum is synonymous with joy, taste, refinement, elegance, and sometimes madness, depending on the mood of the moment. It’s a very vast universe, and that’s precisely what makes us passionate. But we can imagine […]

Bows Rhum HEOC 57° (French)

Bows HEOC (High Ester OCcitan), is a white molasses rum. It comes from a very long fermentation (one month!) using wild yeasts and vinasse. It is a great aroma rum with powerful and concentrated aromas. To accompany this power, it is also bottled at 57%, like the Navy rums […]

A look back at Whisky Live Paris 2018

The great annual gathering of spirits always brings its share of new releases, and distilleries try to keep their secrets to this day in order to surprise us. We went to the Cité de la Mode et du Design with the idea of discovering just a handful of new bottlings, and as usual nothing [...].