It was totally my intention to have some rum reviews going last week. The week before I was all geared up to make the trip to Los Angeles, buy some rum, and do some drinking and reviewing with the crew. Step one went as planned and I made it safely to Los Angeles. Step two went as planned and we bought three bottles of rum and brought out a fourth that my friends had been saving to share with me. Step three was going as planned, but somewhere along the line “drinking and reviewing” turned into “drinking and drinking”.

So the rums I was hoping to review and share with you people were Rhum J.M VSOP, Mocambo 20 year, Zafra Master Reserve 21 year, and Bacardi 1909. I’ve been trying to remember my thoughts on these rums without much luck. I remember I enjoyed them all for different reasons, but I did enjoy them all.

I was really happy with the Bacardi actually. I remember that. I must confess, I’ve been on the “No Bacardi” team for a while so when we got the bottle I joked that it was probably an overpriced repackaging of the standard Bacardi Superior. And, somewhere along the lines our gibes about the potentially awful stuff turned into surprise at how pleasant it was. In fact, in regards to the Bacardi 1909 being good, I remember at least one member of our party chose it as his preferred out of the four.

As for the others… I really only remember the Mocambo 20, and my memory isn’t of the flavor. My memory is of sitting on a sofa with just under half the bottle remaining… and then I proceeded to drink straight from the bottle. And I finished it. I remember that. Kind of. It’s hazy. I remember holding it and it was empty. And my drunken state is probably a testament to the fact that I did, in fact, finish the bottle. That on top of all the other drinking I did that day. From the empty bottle I flash to saying goodbye, a taxi, an angry taxi driver, mumbling incoherently to the faceless people behind the desk at my hotel, misreading my room key, and then waking up the next morning. Huzzah!

So no review from those rums. My apologies to you fine people, and to my liver, and to the employees of the Beverly Wilshire hotel… it’s a lovely hotel by the way… though I wish I’d at least set foot in my room for at least one minute while sober. Yikes.

What I do have are some pictures. I’ve not included most of them. Only some relevant pre-totally-smashed pictures. I’m not in any because I was doing the shooting. Oh well.

Tags: Bacardi, Bacardi 1909, Beverly Wilshire, holy crap I was drunk, Los Angeles, Mocambo, Mocambo 20 Year, rhum, Rhum J.M, Rhum J.M VSOP, Rum, VSOP, Zafra, Zafra Master Reserve

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