Award-winning author and whisky expert Dave Broom has been writing
about whisky for 25 years as a journalist and author. He has
written eight books, two of which (Drink! and Rum) won the
Glenfiddich Award for Drinks Book of the Year. He has also won the
Glenfiddich Award for Drinks Writer of the Year twice and recently
won the extremely prestigious IWSC Communicator of the Year Award.
In 2015 Tales of the Cocktail presented Dave with the Best Cocktail
& Spirits award, soon to be followed by the Golden Spirit Award in
2016.
Over his two decades in the field, Dave has built up a considerable
international following with regular training/educational visits to
France, Holland, Germany, the USA and Japan. His remit has covered
consumer features as well as business reports. He is also actively
involved in whisky education, acting as a consultant to major
distillers on tasting techniques as well as teaching professionals
and the public. He was also one of the developers of Diageo's
generic whisky tasting tool, the Flavour Map™.
This is a most attractively produced illustrated book about one of the world's oldest spirits. The first rum may have been enjoyed some 2,500 years ago, but the modern drink began with moonshine fermented by Iberian New World settlers and later by the other Europeans when they established their Caribbean colonies. Perhaps the most popular rum comes from Cuba, where humidity levels are responsible for the sweetest sugar cane, and where in 1878 Don Facunado Bacardi imported the first still and created his famous brand. Dave Broom examines the colourful history of rum and explains production techniques from around the world. He also offers a directory of more than 200 rums with tasting notes and ratings.
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