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A Scottish spiced rum all the way from Orkney! Produced on the tiny Lamb Holm island, J. Gow Spiced Rum is made using a selection of ingredients from around the would, including a pair of botanicals from Orkney itself. Suitable to enjoy over ice or with your favourite mixer.
Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Honey, vanilla, a great whack of mango and kiwi fruitiness, five-spice, smoked paprika.
Excellent smooth spiced rum. Tried it after the Scottish rum festival. Not overly spiced, but I enjoyed it neat and with ginger beer.
Master of Malt Customer Aug 1, 2020
Not great, maybe not good, fairish at best...
Sweet, and chemical tasting with strong cherry flavors, and very little spice. It's not horrible, and might work well in some recipe that I don't use. Straight it was not good. On ice, not much better. With Coke it actually got worse I think...
Orkney has such great Whisky (Highland Park and Scapa distilleries), Gin (Orkney Gin Co, Deerness Distilling, Kirkjuvagr), and Beer ( Swannay brewery, Orkney Brewery) options, that it would be hard for a good Rum to stand out, but in the case of J. Gow, I think they need to either try harder, or change gears to something else altogether.
Mike Jul 17, 2020
The best spiced rum
My favourite spiced rum (and I know a fair few!). It's not over powering in terms of the spices and flavoured aspects. Definitely made to be a rum as opposed to a lot of other spiced rums which just taste like sweetened spiced vanilla syrup, and can sometimes be horrible thick and sticky. This is first and foremost a rum, that has been carefully spiced to balance and add to the flavour of the rum. Due to this, it makes a great sipping rum to have on it's own, or works incredibly well with ginger beer, apple juice, and of course in cocktails!
Master of Malt Customer Jun 22, 2020
Did not enjoy this at all.
I've tried a lot of spiced rums. I really did not enjoy this one. It has an unnatural chemical taste which overpowered any mixer I tried with it. This really needs a lot more refinement. It cost a lot and I didn't get very far into the bottle. According to the reviews here, some loved it, some didn't. I was of the latter portion.
Michael Jamieson May 31, 2020
Great example of Scottish spiced rum
Excellent example of a classic spiced rum. Not overpowering on any particular spice or flavour like others in the market. Bags of tropical fruit and vanilla so very easily mixed into cocktails (try it in a mojito for example) and leaves a nice lasting aftertaste.
