Rum Tasting

A Carnival 60 evening of Caribbean rum tasting at The Mitre, Holland Park – a guided tasting of Bumbu, the spiced Barbadian rum.

Spend an evening tasting your way through Bumbu, the spiced Barbadian rum, in one of Holland Park’s best-loved gastropubs.

This is a guided tasting with a story. Alongside the rum, you will learn the history of rum and its place in Caribbean culture – from the sugar cane of the colonial plantations to the spirit that runs through Carnival today.

Long before spiced rum reached a shop shelf, the sailors of the West Indies were blending their own – fruit, spice and raw cane spirit mixed by hand. They called it bumbu. Bumbu Original is the modern revival of that tradition, distilled in Barbados at one of the Caribbean’s oldest rum distilleries, blended from sugarcane drawn across eight countries, with notes of caramel, vanilla, banana and warm baking spice.

Across the evening you will taste a flight of different Bumbu rums, be introduced to the brand and its Barbadian roots, learn the history of rum and the Caribbean and raise a glass in good company.

The evening falls on World Steelpan Day, the 11th of August, which honours the steelpan, the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago and the heartbeat of Carnival – a fitting moment to raise a glass to Caribbean culture.