Premium Rum Tasting Set

My bezzy mate and me are Long time rum cocktail drinkers. Cuba Libre, Mojito, Dark and stormy - that kind of thing.

I'm a fairly regular customer - the gin taster sets make excellent suprise alteratives to flowers for friends and family.

I bought both of us one for a lock down virtual night in so we could both taste the rums independently.

Now I enjoyed 3 out of the 5 - my budggy similarly.

The Eldorado - 21 year old 43% wasn't to either of our tastes - tasted a bit like brandy.

Of the rest we both like the Plantation Barbados - both drank it neat

I liked the Mezan - although when I drunk it neat is was a little tame - it made an awesome cuba libre

Both liked teh Ron Zacapa - will be buying a bottle of this boy.

And my buddy liked the Trois Rivieres - although i found it fairly normal.

Overall we had a good night over Zoom tasting the five drinks and was £50 or so well spent.

Feedback would be EITHER.

Sort out the tasting notes and get rid of the Olly Smith type "buttery caramel" shenanigans or - maybe create another set of 5:

The best neat rum
The best cuba libre rum
the best mojito rum
the best dark and stormy rum
The best Spiced rum? (if there is such a thing)

I think you'd sell a few - well I'd buy two anyway - or maybe you'd give me one as market research!

2nd May 2020

Excellent. Four excellent samples of rum and one that’s ok.

25th April 2020

I'm a rum newbie, learning fast and keen to explore but I don't have the deep pockets to buy bottle after bottle and can't always find miniatures of the ones on my to try list. This set is perfect for that - I got to try 5 different rums in one sitting, perfect for comparing and contrasting styles

16th April 2020

Not exactly what I'd call premium. Most of these are heavily sweetened, so not a good or accurate representation of quality-made rum (though they should appeal to those with a penchant for sweeter spirits). The Trois Rivieres VSOP is the exception, and should be a good introduction to aged rhum agricole for the uninitiated. But the others? :-/

13th June 2019

Bought this as a 70th birthday present for a friend. He is delighted, especially with the Plantation 20th.

3rd February 2019

Nice

27th November 2018

4 of the 5 rums in this set are commercial or designer rums that when tested have been found to be contain very high amounts sugar added after distillation and possibly other additives. alongside the unstated actual quantity of aged rum in solera this blends makes them premium price but not in quality of actual spirit and without the designer bottling for which one inadvertently pays for in these brands you'd do better selecting acting a sugar lump to a cheap bacardi or researching 'pure' aged rums and buying them.

30th December 2017

Expensive to be sure when lookingat £/ml, but that isn't really the right thing to compare against. Instead compare how much it would cost you to try all of those rums by other means. Either buy them in a bar, which would be a bit more expensive and also pretty difficult to find, or buy a bottle of each, which would be hugely more expensive.

Although personally I wouldn't bother with the pre-made sets like this. Instead do a bit of google research on interesting nice things to try, and use MoM's build your own tasting set feature. Fantastic.

19th November 2017

I know they are good rums, but for 1/5th of a bottle it seems a lot of money. Is it worth it?

17th August 2017

This was a very fantastic tasting set! I was impressed with how quickly it arrived, beating their own estimate by 4 days. It was well worth the price. The rums in the set that we received were all delicious, with our favorites being the El Dorado 21 Special Reserve and the Rumbullion! XO 15 yo.

4th December 2016

At the time of placing your order you would receive the drams which are listed in the set on the product page. I can confirm the current contents of this tasting are: Diplomático Añejo, Westerhall Vintage Rum, Rumbullion! XO 15 Years Old, Gosling's Family Reserve and Dictador 20 Year Old.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to email our customer service team on contactus@masterofmalt.com or call us on 0044 (0)1892 888376.

--The Chaps at Master of Malt

9th February 2015

from the comment below please can you let me know what potential rums would be included? I wouldn't be happy if I got a Morgan rum in there - that's a pretty mainstream run for the price you charge? please advice as I would love to get this as a gift if I knew the rums were special enough.

8th February 2015

Hi there! We have looked into this for you and we can confirm that these fine Rums you have received have never been listed as part of our Premium Rum Tasting Set. Bearing this in mind, we would love to speak with you regarding this matter, so please do drop our customer service team an email at contactus@masterofmalt.com or call us on 0044 (0)1892 888376, and we will be happy to go from there. --The Chaps at Master of Malt

11th November 2014

The rums I got from this were Morgan spiced, rumbullion, rumbullion navy strength, craken and another all decent rums but not the same as shown above anyone else get that?

10th November 2014

Received this as a gift the bottles look sexy and it tastes brilliant great gift for anyone who like rum. The rumbullion one is the best but there all good

5th November 2014