Forty years on the remains of that last consignment of Royal Navy rum are up for sale at a staggering £ 600 per bottle (ok, technically on sale for £ 599 at this site, but shipping is £5 so a spot of rounding seemed sensible).
Tasting notes, to be found on the main site here, use phrases like:
The Nose Initial treacle notes precede dark chocolate with super-ripe black fruits, muscovado sugar & walnuts. A drop of water releases notes of black banana, liquorice root, tamarind paste with an exotic edge of balsamic.
However I'm going save myself that £ 600 odd by going direct to the dark chocolate, black fruits, muscovado sugar, walnuts, banana and balsamic, all of which I have stashed away in cupboards at home.
After all that's the price of an Apple iPad or iPhone 4!
8 comments:
I love dirk rum.
quite frankly, that's a better deal than spending $650-$900 for
"the end of history" beer encased in a squirrel carcass.
I've heard of noir fiction and film noir, but is there now rum noir?
This must be the ultimate choice for making a Dark and Stormy.
I love babas au rhum.
I love Baba O'Reilly.
But you can get a bottle of Ron Rico Rum for about 12 bucks.
I love Dork and Stormies.
And I like the odd Mojito, but not enough to spend £600 on the rum for it!
Tillerman: I heard a rum toddie very good for colds ;)
Dork rum doesn't sound quite so great.
I like mojitos, even, but not enough to spend the odd 600# on the rum for one.
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