When it comes to alcoholic beverages, I’m a wine guy first and foremost, then a Scotch & bourbon guy. Until recently if someone mentioned rum and didn’t say Coke right after it or mention mojito’s, I wasn’t quite sure what they were getting at. But then aged rum started hitting my periphery. One reason was some friends who enjoyed and extolled its virtues and another was my love of Single Malt Scotch. Over the last couple of years it became clear to me that some of my favorite expressions of Scotch were ones that were finished in more than one type of cask. Among those is The Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask. It’s aged for 12 years in whiskey barrels and then spends the last two years aging in ex- rum casks. Thus the desire to sample more aged rums increased. The more examples I tried it became clear how distinct they could be from one another. Head over to The Daily Meal to read the rest of this comprehensive story...