The Best Smoky Rums

Don Pancho Origenes 18 is a blend of rums aged a minimum of 18 years in American oak casks from Kentucky. Francisco Jose Fernandez Perez, also known as “Don Pancho” has over 50 years experience as a master blender and distiller; when he found the perfect mix of quality sugar and aging environment in Panama, he started his own distillery, aging and blending cellar there. The still is a copper column still, the last known functioning still, of its kind, in the world. The lengthy aging is constantly monitored and blended with the age statement referring to the minimum age of each rum in the final blend.

All of their rhums are made from the cane juice of locally grown sugar cane harvested beginning in February into early summer. Additionally, all Rhum Saint James products have been awarded the AOC certification noting that they have met the islands high standards for agricole rhums. Their Réserve Privée has been aged a minimum of 12 years in oak and is bottled at 43% abv.

This Rhode Island rum is made with distilled blackstrap molasses before aging at least two years in oak barrels. The distillers of Newport Distilling Co. researched the archives of the Newport Historical Society for recipes and traditional distilling methods and applied this information to the creation of their rum.

The base rum for this product is sourced from the Angostura Distillery in Trinidad and Tobago. The rum is transported to the Westerhall aging houses in Grenada where it is aged and blended on site. Note: This is not currently available in the U.S.

This rum is distilled in Mexico at Licores Veracruz, S.A. de C.V. It is made using a combination of continuous column-still and pot-stills to create their rums from molasses and sugarcane juice. After distillation the rum is aged in European white oak barrels. The rum bottle is presented in a bottle wrapped in amate tree fibers. This is called the "Art edition" because each bottle is a work of art created by artist Master Victor Fernandez. He uses Amate Tree fibers to create the design wrapped around the bottle. Each bottle is individually numbered and unique. The rum in the bottle has a dark chocolate with rusty amber highlights. In the glass the colors lighten to a mahogany with amber highlights. Agitating the liquid created a thick band around the glass and slowly releases legs that crawl down the side of the glass.

The small-batch pot-still rum is sourced from the Caribbean and blended and bottled at the A. Smith Bowman Distillery located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It comes in at 40% ABV.

Sold exclusively at the Prichard Distilleries in Kelso and Nashville, Tennessee, this rum is distilled from Grade A molasses and aged for 10+ years before being bottled at 90 proof.

Distilled from Costa Rican sugarcane, the rum is then aged in used bourbon barrels. It is blended using the solera method with 20-year old rums being the oldest part of the blend. The rum has a pleasant mahogany color with copper hues.

Cuvée Homère represents the top marque in Clément's Cellar Master’s Selection Series. While it does not carry an age statement, it is a blend of the Cellar Master's favorite rhums from the previous fifteen years. The blend includes rhums aged in both French Limousin barriques and re-charred Bourbon barrels.

Brugal Añejo is a rum produced in the Domincan Republic. It is aged for 2 to 5 years in used American oak barrels. In some markets, this is sold at 38% ABV, but in the US, it is bottled at 40% ABV.