World-Class Rum Tasting Auctioned Off to Profit Kids

High 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 buddy, one of many Boyer Kids’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 one of the best rums on the earth (and a cocktail) to profit kids with neuromuscular illnesses 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 accessible 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 by every of those world-class rums for 15 company. When you have been to any of The Rum Collective‘s many academic occasions, you’d know a greeting cocktail is obligatory. For this tasting, such a cocktail will likely be served as nicely. What to decide on? A cocktail to start a night indulging in among the most exceptional rums on the earth have to be of comparable high quality. This cocktail, that includes Papa’s Pilar Blonde Rum, is the proper alternative (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 have been chosen by the next order of standards: high quality, geographic illustration and magnificence, 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 record 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 choices 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 academic expertise will characteristic these rums in a choose order and offered 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 stay public sale portion of the Gala. The bidding costs started at $500 and escalated quickly. The tasting offered for $1600!! The profitable bidder of the stay 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, corresponding to therapies, particular training preschool lessons, medical consultations, and household assets for the 750+ kids and households Boyer Kids’s Clinic serves annually.”

A honest thanks to the homeowners 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 Kids’s Clinic!!

CHEERS!!!