Rhum Barbancourt 15 year - Haitian

[Evinissent Cum Guinness]

This is a report on Rhum Barbancourt 15 year-old haitian rum.

YAAAR! I'm only JUST begining to fall down from my piratical adventure of this rum tonight. Earlier in the evening (well, yesterday...) I went out to the queyside with about 14 buddies of mine, all of a very piratical sort, and was presented with a full BOTTLE of this goodness. My pal Jerry O'Shea who works on a river ship here and does other marine work when he's sober, had just gotten back from the carribean and had aquired a case of these. Of course, we uncapped the bottles right away and made our way into greater portland, covertly drinking our way around the docks, downtown, and back alleys of the outlaw city. I impressed myself, and made it about half the way through the bottle before we hit our first bar, but when we did so it went into my messanger bag and there it stayed the rest of the night as I nursed my drunkeness on Guinness and various Indian Pale Ales (Rogue IPA, Dark Star IPA and Freeminer Trafalgar IPA).

I got home around 11, and found a strange bottle in my manpurse, so of course I took it as a sign from the gods, and went out my porch with a random cigar to finish it off while I tryed to clear myself up to do some work. I examined it closer... rum? Yes, I remembered vaugly something about rum... looked fancy enough, but it had a screwtop? Strange... I undid the cap, and poured a nice lukewarm glass, and examined it. An AMBER rum? Bollocks, I'm more of a dark rum sort, I like the ass kicking.

My initial concerns left me as soon as I took a swig - It had a great peppery taste, hot and sweet, and with that perfect burn you only find in the most ass kicking of rums, but it sort of stays on the tounge, it never goes to far down the throat - It's aroma was very telling as well, a sweet veneer painted very thin over a wall of s***es and dramatic alcohol.

Overall, I'd give it a 9/10, it doesn't mix particularly well, but this is of little issue - I'm not a rum mixing sort of person anyhow, especially not with finer rums. A very intense, piratical concoction.