The legendary Probitas (Veritas in every other country) is finally upon us! This "extremely exciting" (a direct quote from K&L's spirit buyer) is a collaboration between the excellent Foursquare distillery in Barbados and the wonderful Hampden Estate in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, where they are "rewriting the rules for rum." It begins with a base of molasses-based rum distilled expertly by Richard Seale on his famous Coffey still. These are mingled with two rare rums from Jamaica's most authentic distillery, are two "low-ester" rums from the OWH marque (O...

The Sazerac owned Myer's Rum has always been a staple in the pantheon of dark Jamaican rums and offered some of the best value on the market in the category. For the first time, they are offering single barrels of this special rum. Selected at the Buffalo Trace distillery when our spirits team visited in May of this year, this barrel was aged in Sazerac rye barrels for 15 months before bottling.