24 Days of Rum

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  24 Days of Rum Blue Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2cl

  Item no.: 2222444-66999

  Rum speaks in many accents. One day it's warm molasses and Caribbean sun, the next it's spice from across Asia or the cellar-cool character of a European take on the category. 24 Days of Rum Blue Edition gathers 24 of those voices in one box, opened one country at a time through December.

  Expert's Description

  24 Days of Rum Blue Edition is a rum tasting calendar from the Danish spirits house 1423, made up of 24 miniature bottles at 2cl each from 24 different countries and bottled at 42.5%. The idea is simple: open a new bottle each day in December and travel to a new country – from classic Caribbean and Latin American sugarcane and molasses rums to takes on the category from Asia and Europe, plus a few rum-based spirits along the way that borrow rum's sweetness without quite being rum. Every miniature carries its own label and a QR code that opens the background story of that particular rum house, so the box works as much as a travel guide as a tasting kit. Two glasses and a tasting-notes guide are included, making it easier to put words to the differences from one day to the next.

  1423 started as a group of friends who actually bonded over whisky, until rum caught their attention at a Danish spirits fair around the turn of the millennium. What began as curiosity has grown into a Danish spirits house with its own cask warehouse, built around selecting and maturing rum from all over the world – and side projects like this calendar are where that breadth gets poured into one box.

  Tasting Notes

  Nose

  There's no single scent to expect here – that's the whole point. Some bottles bring warm molasses and brown sugar, others fresh sugarcane and citrus, and a handful lean toward spice and smoke, closer to rum-based spirits than classic rum.

  Palate

  The same spread carries through to the glass. Some of the 24 are light and soft with a touch of vanilla, others dry and oak-driven with caramel and dried fruit, and a few bring a spiced, almost peppery edge.

  Finish

  Short and fresh at one end of the box, long and woody at the other – the finish is the clearest reminder of just how differently rum can turn out, even when it all starts from the same sugarcane.

  Specifications

  Name: 24 Days of Rum Blue Edition
  Bottler: 1423
  Region/Country: Denmark
  Type: Rum Advent Calendar
  ABV: 42.5%
  Size: 48 CL (24 x 2cl)
  Edition: Blue Edition
  EAN No.: 5712718007824
  Serving suggestion: Best tasted neat at room temperature, one bottle at a time, using the two included glasses – save the bolder rums for later in the calendar.

  Flavour Profile

  Versatile · Exotic · Global · Fruity · Spiced

  Did You Know?

  The name 1423 actually comes from a mistake. When the team bottled their first rum – a Barbados-Trinidad blend – in November 2008, a note on the bottle got mistaken for a name. The mix-up stuck, and the whole spirits house has been called 1423 ever since.

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  • 1pcs.
    87,00EUR
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  24 Days of Rum Mocha Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2cl

  Item no.: 2222444-6655

  A mocha-brown box, 24 doors and a world that reaches well beyond the Caribbean. Uganda, South Africa, India and Fiji grow sugar cane too, and they are what makes December interesting here. Two glasses sit in the box, because this calendar is built for two.

  The expert's description

  24 Days of Rum Mocha Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2 cl is a rum advent calendar holding 24 different rums in 2 cl miniature bottles at strengths from 38% to 54%, averaging around 41%, with two Spey Dram glasses in the box.

  The Mocha Edition sets itself apart first and foremost through its line-up. Where rum means the Caribbean to most people, this edition pulls towards Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Uganda, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Fiji and Mexico stand alongside classics from Martinique, El Salvador, Trinidad and Belize, and it is exactly that mix which makes the calendar hard to second-guess.

  The styles are as scattered as the countries. There is rum distilled from fresh cane juice in India, a Mexican rum with twenty years behind it, spiced rum from Scotland and a couple of rum-based spirit drinks, one of them built on orange. Because strength swings from 38% to 54%, both weight and punch shift noticeably from one day to the next.

  With two Spey Dram glasses and a tasting notes folder in the box, the calendar is made to be shared and to be written down as you go. The running order stays hidden, but the full list of all 24 bottles sits under the Description tab. For corporate gifting the shop takes orders from six calendars upwards at ordre@whisky.dk.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Dried fruit and coconut first, with vanilla and pale caramel behind. The African and Asian bottles pull in another direction with green cane juice, ripe banana and a trace of spice, and a couple of doors smell clearly of orange peel.

  Palate

  The breadth shows up most on the tongue. The aged rums are round and cask-sweet with raisin, dried apricot and toasted oak, while the Indian cane juice rum is tight and juicy with sweetness straight from the cane. The spiced bottling lays cinnamon and nutmeg over the top, and the strongest at around 54% deliver real pressure.

  Finish

  From short and fresh to long and dry. The oldest hang on with dark syrup, tobacco and dry wood, while the youngest let go faster on cane and citrus peel.

  Specifications

  Name: 24 Days of Rum Mocha Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2 cl
  Producer: 1423 World Class Spirits
  Region/Country: Rum from around the world
  Type: Rum Advent Calendar
  ABV: 38-54%
  Size: 2 CL per bottle
  Number of bottles in the calendar: 24
  Edition: Mocha Edition
  Serving suggestion: Neat at room temperature, ideally two glasses side by side so two days can be tasted against each other
  

  Flavour profile

  Dried Fruit · Vanilla · Coconut · Spiced · Cane-fresh

  Did you know?

  The Mocha in the name refers to the colour of the box, not to coffee. There is neither coffee nor mocha in any of the 24 bottles. The concept itself comes from the Danish company 1423 World Class Spirits, so the rums of the world arrive in a box put together in Denmark.

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  • 1pcs.
    87,00EUR
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  24 Days of Rum Black Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2cl

  Item no.: 2222444-6653

  A black box makes sense in the darkest month of the year. Behind the doors sits heavy molasses rum from Guyana next to fresh cane juice from Guadeloupe, and somewhere in the run there is one bottled at navy strength. You can change your mind about rum several times over 24 days.

  The expert's description

  24 Days of Rum Black Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2 cl is a rum advent calendar holding 24 different rums in 2 cl miniature bottles at strengths from 38% to 54.5%, with two glasses in the box.

  The concept comes from 1423 World Class Spirits, a Danish company that has turned the rum calendar into a fixed part of December for rum drinkers in a good many countries. The selection follows one rule: as many origins as possible within 24 doors. The two glasses are included so the rum can be tasted properly from 1 December rather than poured into whatever tumbler is nearest.

  Geography is the real content here. There is heavy molasses-based rum from Jamaica and Guyana, aged Spanish style bottlings from Panama, Peru, Guatemala and El Salvador, and rhum agricole pressed from fresh cane juice in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Réunion. Further afield come bottles from Mauritius, Indonesia, Brazil, Australia and Cambodia, where Kampot pepper has been steeped into the rum. One is distilled on Orkney, an island known for something rather different from sugar cane.

  A couple of the doors hold rum-based spirit drinks rather than straight rum, and that is deliberate: the calendar is meant to show the edges of the category as well as its centre. The running order stays hidden, but the full list of all 24 bottles sits under the Description tab. For corporate gifting the shop takes orders from six calendars upwards at ordre@whisky.dk.

  Tasting notes

  Nose

  Molasses and dark brown sugar form the base note throughout, but the French bottles break the pattern with green cane, olive and something earthy. Along the way banana, coconut and dried apricot turn up, and on one day there is a clear smell of freshly cracked pepper.

  Palate

  From tight and dry to round and cask-sweet. The aged Central American rums are soft with vanilla, caramel and toasted oak, while the Jamaican and Guyanese ones are sharper-edged with liquorice, dark fruit and an oily weight. The agricole bottles cut through with acidity and cane juice, and the 54.5% of the navy bottling registers from the first sip.

  Finish

  Length varies as much as the styles do. The lightest let go quickly on cane and citrus, while the heavy ones hang on with tobacco, dark chocolate and spiced wood.

  Specifications

  Name: 24 Days of Rum Black Edition - Rum Advent Calendar filled with 24 x 2 cl
  Producer: 1423 World Class Spirits
  Region/Country: Rum from around the world
  Type: Rum Advent Calendar
  ABV: 38-54.5%
  Size: 2 CL per bottle
  Number of bottles in the calendar: 24
  Edition: Black Edition
  Serving suggestion: Neat at room temperature in a small glass, with a single drop of water if needed
  

  Flavour profile

  Molasses · Dried Fruit · Spiced · Cane-fresh · Cask-aged

  Did you know?

  Each of the 24 miniature bottles carries its own label, drawn to mirror the producer's original bottle. Nothing is tasted blind, and from 1 December the rum of the day can be looked up and rated by rum drinkers worldwide at 24daysofrum.com.

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  • 1pcs.
    87,00EUR