101 RUMS TO TRY BEFORE YOU DIE

While gin has gone cray and whiskey is looking to its laurels, rum is having a moment. No longer the poor relation of the spirit world, rum after years in the doldrums is once again in fashion. Do prefer your rum in the British, French or Spanish manner? Aged, spiced or both? Do you refer to it by colour? White, silver, gold or dark might be your marker. Where do you stand on the next question of added sugar - sweet benediction or the work of the Devil? Does rum ever have to come from the Caribbean and does Bacardi count? Look no further than this beautifully designed and illustrated guide for an entertaining, irreverent and informative survey of the very best - with not a pirate in sight. Gives brand owner, website and origin for example for the St. Aubin White Agricultural Rum 1819 or the Japanese Ryoma seven year old oak cask, the Monymusk Classic Gold from Jamaica, discount supermarket Aldi's Old Hopking White, one of our Annie's favourites Doorly's 12 year old from Barbados, and Mountgay 1703, and from England there is Matugga Golden Rum and from the USA Medford. Buxton brings his usual good taste and vast experience to this often confusing subject as we sink into a Caribbean reverie. Cheers! Beautifully illustrated in colour photographs, 224pp.