Drank neat your tastebuds are immediately bombarded by the hazelnut, then quickly followed by notes of chocolate, hence the awesome smell. Fill a Collins glass with ice, pour in the Belgrove Hazelnut Rum, squeeze in the lime juice and top up with Appletiser.

Colour – “The pale gold colour of the Prosecco turns golden once the Caramel and Hazelnut Rum is added. Part of the Plantation Under the Sea Vintage Collection, this particular bottling was distilled in 2013 at the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados. The fourth panel was chaired by Billy Abbott, ambassador at The Whisky Exchange, and included: Vicky Illankovan, editor-in-chief of Sated Online, and marketing and project manager at Equal Measures UK; and Federico Caputo, assistant bar manager at Coya.I didn’t want to create a complicated cocktail, I wanted these cocktails to be easy to make, so if you finished one glass, you could just simply create a second, as I have three liqueurs, I’m going to get three glasses, add in the liqueurs and then pour in some Giusti Prosseco. Retailers and bars are seeing a new breed of enthusiast looking to make rum their speciality, given its wide-reaching flavour profile.

A popular example is the Cuba Libre, which is made with rum and Coke, but you can also add a bit of lime juice and gin to make it a bit more interesting. Next add the Goslings Black Seal rum, the mango nectar and British Cassis before mixing well and then chilling. I recently had an opportunity to visit the Sugarlands Distilling Company in Gatlinburg, TN and of course we brought home a variety of delicious moonshine.They include overripe banana, discarded citrus peels and toasted dandelion root, which brings a distinctly cinnamon-like note to the flavour. New flavour combinations and innovative cask finishes are giving us even more reasons to choose a rum for Christmas over the more traditional brandies and whiskies, with which we have avidly warmed our cockles with previously. The base of this fine rum is distilled from the finest sugarcane molasses, known for producing high-quality rums. It’s sweetened with special, local acacia honey, created by bees from the very vineyards owned by the Francoli Distillery itself.