Ramblings from an amateur booze geek.
Echt Liquor Lab in Pittsburgh received TTB label approval in June for two rums they’re labeling as “agricole”. Let’s look at the labels and see what might be confusing.
This probably won’t be my best written article as it’s been re-written and re-structured several times, so please bear with me.
Here’s a new list of upcoming rum releases for the US market compiled from TTB label certifications approved in August. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, so none of these are likely to be available yet and it’s anyone’s guess when they might appear in stores.
This doesn’t include every rum label approval, I’ve tried to triage the approvals to the brands that people would recognize, while also including other labels that might be interesting. Last month I included several cachacas, but this month I’m excluding them because there were quite a few. The list also doesn’t include flavored/spiced rums.
This month’s highlights include more Mexican rums from Alambique Serrano, rhum agricoles from Damoiseau, a new Providence release from Haiti, Raising Glasses and Rolling Fork have a partnership bottling, Worthy Park is either rebranding Rum-Bar or adding line extensions, and Samaroli’s next batch of rums have approved labels.
Interesting things: A new rum from Uganda as well as one distilled at Missouri State University. And a rum for real, actual spies.
Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — September 2023”Here are some upcoming rum releases for the US market approved in July 2023. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, there’s no news on when these will actually hit stores (though a few are already available for pre-sale online). Anything else filed in July that’s approved in August will be included in next month’s report.
This post covers rum label approvals from July 2023. I don’t include flavored/spiced rums. This month we have releases from Rolling Fork, Barbancourt, Hampden Estate, Dillon, Goslings, Monymusk, Privateer, Raising Glasses, Bayou, Grander, Virago, and Royal Cane as well as several new brands from Mauritius and Indonesia and a new rum and clairin from Haiti as well as new Panama rum releases from Kirkland (Costco).
You can find last month’s edition of this report here.
Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — August 2023”Jamaica’s Hampden Estate distillery is preparing to follow up on last year’s set of eight unaged rums across representing their eight main styles of rum with a new set that shows us what those rums are like after a year of tropical aging in ex-bourbon casks.
Continue reading “Hampden Estate prepares to release a new aged Eight Marks set.”Here are some upcoming rum releases for the US market. These are only label approvals recorded at the US TTB, there’s no news on when these will actually hit stores.
Going forward I’ll post this the first week of each month covering the previous month. Since this is the first month I’ve done this, I’m including labels approved before June that haven’t hit markets yet.
In this batch we have releases from Beenleigh, Foursquare, Hampden Estate, Holmes Cay, Dead Reckoning, Privateer, El Dorado, Grander, ImpEx, Paranubes, Transcontinental Rum Line, Clairin Casimir, Montebello, Dillon, Kaniche, Chicago Cane Collective, Vieux Labbe, Kuleana, Alambique Serrano, and Casa Mendez.
Privateer re-filed several of their labels last month, I assume it was due to an error on the earlier filing. I’ve included both versions here for reference.
There are a lot of images here, so be patient loading the page. I hope you find this useful!
Continue reading “Upcoming US Rum Releases of Interest — Through June 2023”I’ve maintained Google Sheets that track releases from Foursquare, Renaissance, and Hampden Estate for a few years, and today I’ve updated them and added links to them from the References page on this site:
These lists are probably missing information and I’d love updates. Especially if you can cite sources/bottle labels to confirm the information.
Note: I started typing this in late 2021 before the collection was released. It’s since been released, and I’ve added a section at the end with release details. I’m publishing it today and leaving the first part of the article as-is, so you’ll see it referred to it as an upcoming release.
There’s been a lot of excitement around the upcoming Hampden Estate 8 Marks Collection release from Velier next year, but very few sightings and tastings of the actual set. Fortunately, Velier sent the great Daniele Biondi to Whisky Live Singapore in November, and I was able to taste the set at his Hampden masterclass!
Hampden Estate announced their 8 Marks Collection set at Whisky Live Paris on 26 September. If you’re a lover of funky, fruity Jamaican rums this is a set you’ll probably want to look for.
You may remember hearing rumors about this set in early August, when an announcement was accidentally posted early to Hampden Estate’s Facebook page and then deleted once excited discussions started in rum forums.
