World-Class Rum Tasting Auctioned Off to Profit Youngsters

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

This vacation season started with a cocktail: goodwill combined with rum. It began with a private request from a pal, 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 imagine should you can share 10 of the most effective rums on this planet (and a cocktail) to learn youngsters with neuromuscular ailments and developmental delays together with their households, then this was a tasting value donating and that’s what I did…

Ten of the best rums out there from all over the world 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 contains complimentary valet parking by Butler Valet, catered meals by Mojito and a personally guided dialogue via every of those world-class rums for 15 visitors. You probably have been to any of The Rum Collective‘s many instructional 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 among the most outstanding rums on this planet have to be of comparable high quality. This cocktail, that includes Papa’s Pilar Blonde Rum, is the right selection (see picture beneath).

Might I curiosity you a Hemingway Daiquiri? 

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

Hemingway Daiquri featuting Papa’s Pilar Blonde & Luxardo Maraschino

Oh yeah!

The entire rums chosen for the tasting have been chosen by the next order of standards: high quality, geographic illustration and elegance, and availability in Washington State. Additionally, the rum have to be donated by the model. Effectively, guess what? “Huge (and small) Rum” simply gave again!! The listing of rums within the tasting will embody: 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 among 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 instructional expertise will characteristic these rums in a choose order and introduced in snifters donated by Liberty Bar.

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

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

“Proceeds will present direct companies, equivalent to therapies, particular training preschool courses, medical consultations, and household assets 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 learn Boyer Youngsters’s Clinic!!

CHEERS!!!