Light golden rums have generally been aged for a relatively short period of time in oak casks, adding colour and character. They are therefore perfect for good quality cocktails, although the better quality examples are also very enjoyable sipped neat over ice.
Golden Elements 8 has been a huge success since its introduction in 2008 and can be found in style bars up and down the country in its fancy tall bottle. Elements 8 is distilled in St. Lucia by the makers of Admiral Rodney and Chairman's Reserve, so you know it's got to be good.
A pot-distilled rum from Moet-Hennessy, 10 Cane is made with only the first pressing juice from virgin Trinidaian sugar cane, rather than the molasses that most white rums are derived from.
A 200 vintage Jamaican rum from the Hampden distillery in the north west of the island, bottled by Mezan. Hampden are famed for their pungent rums and this is no different - very estery with overripe banana and spice.
A 1998 vintage Guyana rum from Mezan, distilled at the now closed and hard to say Uitvlugt distillery. This would have been distilled on their four column Savalle still, which lives on at the state owned Demerera Distillers company.
Another excellent vintage rum from the marvellous Plantation stable. Jamaica 2000 is a full-bodied pot-distilled rum, mature with plenty of tropical fruit flavours.
A special Caribbean rum bottled under the name of Lebensstern, the bar upstairs from the famed Café Einstein in Berlin, 2010 winners of the Tales of the Cocktail World's Best Drinks Selection award.
We love Guyanese rum here at TWE - with XM and El Dorado being particular favourites - so this vintage golden rum from top bottlers Plantation is a very welcome addition to our shelves. A generous palate with a hint of smoke, perhaps as a result of being distilled in wooden stills...
Made at the eponymous Barbados distillery which also produces the more famous Mount Gay, Mount Gilboa is triple-distilled from molasses in copper potstills for a refined, engrossing flavour.
A spiced version of Bundaberg, Australia's biggest 'rum' export. Unfortunately we can't call it rum because it's less than 37.5%, but it's still the same old Bundy with an extra slab of spice.
Superb golden overproof rum from the Virgin Islands. Remarkably flavoursome for such a strong rum, this Cruzan is a great float for cocktails but should not be drunk neat.
A very high-strength overproof pot-distilled molasses rum from Mauritius, Tilambic is aged for up to seven years. The 151 represents the strength in US proof, which means that this rum is 75.5% abv and as such should be used extremely carefully and not ingested neat.