Cocktails by spirit
Rum: light, dark, and the in-between.
The Mojito. The Daiquiri. The Pina Colada. Tropical without tipping into sickly.
Cocktails by spirit
The Mojito. The Daiquiri. The Pina Colada. Tropical without tipping into sickly.
Every cocktail on the site that uses this spirit as its base.
Rum has two temperaments. Light white rum – Plantation 3 Stars, Havana Club 3-Year – is the mixer for Mojitos and Daiquiris, grassy and bright. Aged amber rum – Appleton Estate from Jamaica, say – is slower, darker, nutty, the base for Dark & Stormies and the sweeter end of the tiki cabinet. Both earn their place on any serious home bar. Pick one of each to start, and you are set for a summer of long drinks.
The shelf for this spirit. Each links to its own Food & Drinks review.

Plantation 3 Stars (recently rebranded Planteray, same juice) is a blend of Trinidadian, Barbadian, and Jamaican white rums aged briefly in bourbon barrels, filtered clear, and cut to…
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Appleton Estate Signature is the aged rum that most Aussie bottle shops actually stock, and at under $55 it is a small miracle of pricing. Four-year minimum Jamaican…
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Havana Club 3 Year is the bottle that will change your opinion of rum cocktails forever, and it sells for about the same as a round of Bacardi.…
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