Don Q’s better than Bacardi, even if it’s less well known. Basically white rum should be a light, mostly unaged product that still tastes largely like molasses/sugarcane, albeit much less intensely than say… a Demerara or Jamaican rum.
Bacardi just distills the bejeezus out of it in a column still, and as a result, their classic white rum is almost like molasses flavored vodka, although I suspect that if they did flavor it, it would actually be more intense.
Almost certainly at Heathrow, as it is in stores. Or just buy and pack it. I don’t know if Duty Free care about laws or will inform you, yet there is a non-zero chance the CBP (Customs) will confiscate and destroy (or possibly drink) it.
Yeah, it must have been you, since I remember the mention of learning to love it while in St. Thomas for several months.
And I was grateful for the recommendation, since for a few years afterward its combination of dirt cheap price and surprisingly good quality made it a real find. But then, like I said, it started becoming difficult to find in the stores around here, and that last bottle I bought (last Summer I think) tasted awful. Maybe just a one-off bad batch? If and when I see it in the store again, I’ll consider giving it another try.
But I’ve found that if you start telling the CBP guy everything you bought in your day trip to Canada, he’ll get bored and wave you through before you get to the rum.
I got a bottle of Havana Club 7 yr, Lamb’s Palm Breeze, and Newfoundland Screech (only the Havana Club is prohibited), so I’ve enjoyed sampling those, since they’re not available in Texas.
Well that’s a shame. The bars in St. Thomas served rum and coke that was easily 90% rum, mainly because Cruzan was something like 90 cents a quart and Coke was several dollars a sixpack (this was in 1976). So glugglugglug with the rum and a splash of Coke. It was no wonder there were so many alcoholics there.
