The New York World Spirits Competition announced today that the best rum for 2024 is Star & Key VSOP Single Cask rum. The rum outscored competitors to win the competition’s Best in Show Distinction.

Planteray’s Hogo Monsta is a hyper-concentrated, high-ester rum so intense it’s meant to be used by the drop to add explosive ...

With its wide range of rums that include vintages, blends, and bar classics, there’s no doubt that the Plantation Rum brand is revolutionizing the world of spirits with its unique blend of tradition ...

In this article, we are going to discuss the top 5 best rums in the world. If 5 is not enough and you’re interested in discovering more top-notch expressions, check out our complete list of the 20 ...

The 2025 Top Shelf Awards highlight rum’s global reach, honoring standout producers from Australia, Jamaica, Peru, and beyond for both unaged and aged styles. Queensland’s Burdekin Distillery received ...

When the New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, one of the premier award events on the drinks calendar, announced their winner for Best Overall Rum, the winner was drinker’s pocketbooks. An ...

It’s fitting to start where it all began. Barbados, where Mount Gay has been producing since 1703, is considered the birthplace of Caribbean rum. Today Trudiann Branker, the brand’s first female ...

Aged rum is having a moment, and Jamaica’s oldest continuously operating rum distillery is poised to make the most of it. Appleton Estate has just released The Source, the world’s oldest tropically ...

Nobody wants to pay a seemingly large amount of cash for a bottle of rum to find that it’s not really worth the price. When it comes to rum (and every other spirit), value per dollar is often the most ...

Dark rum, like dark beer, is something of a grey area: how dark is dark? Just as there are acres of difference between, say, a dark lager and an imperial stout, many bottles of rum wearing the ‘dark’ ...

What drink would you give someone if it was their very first time sampling rum? According to Trudiann Branker, the first female master blender at the world’s oldest commercial rum distillery: a rum ...