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My Scale for Rating Rum Keep in mind as you read my reviews and ratings that I'm giving you my opinions from a unique perspective. So here's that view of rum that impacts my ratings.

1. I really, really don't like spiced or flavored rum.

2. I've discovered a preference for aging that transcends price.

3. Too much alcohol or too much of a burn straight up hides the quality of rum.

4. I'm surprisingly unswayed by others' opinions of rums, but I am driven to try rums about which others rave.

5. I gave up trying and rating cheaper rums with the exception of some novelty rums.

6. A typical tasting is both straight up and with Diet Coke.

7. I'm not much of a drinker. I don't have more than two drinks in an evening. So I really savor my rum and Diet Cokes.

My Rating Scale 1 to 10, Worst to Best No quibbling over decimal points; although, I have gone back and changed ratings--and reserve the authority to do so again.

The lowest three ratings are just rather poor rums that I don't like.
1 = Pour it out. 2 = Rub it on. 3 = Give it away.

The next three ratings mix with my Diet Coke, and I can be polite about them in company.
4 = Mix it very well. 5 = Mix it. 6 = Accept the gift, but don't regift.

The 7's are a conundrum. They knocked on the door, but the knock on them is typically too much alcohol bite.
7 = Don't turn it down.

These are the rums I hope to get when dining out or in a bar.
8 = Put it on the Top Shelf. 9 = Write it at the Top of the List.


These rums are so far above the others that everyone who tastes them instantly realizes they are special.
10 = Mark it as the Ultimate Rum.

Value Ratings The value ratings are calculated by squaring a rum's rating and dividing by the price for a 750 ml bottle. The very expensive ones don't compete on value. The really bad ones can't overcome their 1 or 2 ratings. This helps find the 8's and 9s that deliver the best taste for the money.

Saturday, March 17, 2012


Rum: Deep Sea, Cocoa, Florida
Rating: 1     Proof: 80

Bought for the bottle--great bottle.  Not sure this is rum.  This is the smell you experience before a shot of penicillin not a shot of rum. 


Value Rating: .05  Extremely Low     
Yep, this was a waste of money on the rum.  Great bottle, though. 



Typical Price:  $22/750 ml


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