World-Class Rum Tasting Auctioned Off to Profit Youngsters

Prime row: Clement X.O. & Brugal 1888 Backside row: Mount Homosexual 1703 & Angostura 1824

This vacation season started with a cocktail: goodwill blended with rum. It began with a private request from a good friend, one of many Boyer Youngsters’s Clinic Board of Administrators, to donate a rum tasting for his or her annual Inspiring Journeys Public sale Gala.


I consider in case you can share 10 of the very best rums on the planet (and a cocktail) to profit youngsters with neuromuscular illnesses and developmental delays together with their households, then this was a tasting price donating and that’s what I did…

Ten of the best rums obtainable from world wide have been chosen. This one-of-a-kind tasting is to happen in a panoramic Capital Hill rental with sweeping views of downtown Seattle. The night consists of complimentary valet parking by Butler Valet, catered meals by Mojito and a personally guided dialogue by way of every of those world-class rums for 15 friends. When you have been to any of The Rum Collective‘s many academic occasions, you’ll know a greeting cocktail is obligatory. For this tasting, such a cocktail will likely be served as effectively. What to decide on? A cocktail to start a night indulging in a number of the most outstanding rums on the planet should be of comparable high quality. This cocktail, that includes Papa’s Pilar Blonde Rum, is the proper selection (see picture under).

Might I curiosity you a Hemingway Daiquiri? 

Relaxation assured, it is made with solely the best substances…

Hemingway Daiquri featuting Papa’s Pilar Blonde & Luxardo Maraschino

Oh yeah!

All the rums chosen for the tasting had been chosen by the next order of standards: high quality, geographic illustration and magnificence, and availability in Washington State. Additionally, the rum should be donated by the model. Effectively, guess what? “Massive (and small) Rum” simply gave again!! The checklist of rums within the tasting will embrace: Clement X.O. of Martinique, Brugal 1888 of the Dominican Republic, Mount Homosexual 1703 of Barbados and Angostura 1824 of Trinidad (see earlier picture). The opposite six picks within the tasting signify a number of the most outstanding rums out of Spain, Panama, France, Venezuela, Guatemala and Puerto Rico and are Ron Navazos Palazzi, Ron Abuelo Centuria, Plantation twentieth Anniversary, Ron Diplomatico Ambassador, Ron Zacapa XO and DonQ Gran Anejo respectively. This intimate, guided academic expertise will characteristic these rums in a choose order and introduced in snifters donated by Liberty Bar.

Behold some extra of essentially the most prized rums on the planet. 

The donated tasting was a part of the reside public sale portion of the Gala. The bidding costs started at $500 and escalated quickly. The tasting bought for $1600!! The successful bidder of the reside public sale was introduced on stage and supplied with a celebratory glass of Brugal 1888 to mark the event. Yum!!

“Proceeds will present direct providers, equivalent to therapies, particular schooling preschool courses, medical consultations, and household sources for the 750+ youngsters and households Boyer Youngsters’s Clinic serves every year.”

A honest thanks to the house owners of the rental, Butler Valet, Mojito, Liberty Bar and every of the manufacturers who donated their product to create a first-rate rum tasting to profit Boyer Youngsters’s Clinic!!

CHEERS!!!