10 Cane Rum
10 Cane Rum is tasty rum, no doubt about it. In addition to the flavor, the bottle looks amazing with it’s screened classical engraving-styled front, it’s bright jaunty-angled label, and the embossing of RUM in vertical type on each side gives it that old school bottle feel. The folk that make this really know how to package this sweet golden liquid.
I bought a bottle a while back and it just looked to good that I felt guilty about drinking it. Me being the good little consumer I am, I just had to have a second bottle to sit and look pretty. So I go out and buy another bottle of 10 Cane, get it home, and I’m looking at the design on the front and what do I notice. A bug! A tiny little bug with wings floating around in my rum! I wonder how that got past quality control. Oh well, when I do get around to drinking it, which I will, I won’t sweat it; I figure the alcohol killed all the bacteria, plus I’m not a squeamish complain-y type person either.
UPDATE: Within a scant few hours of writing this I was contacted by one of the brand managers over at Moët Hennessy, the parent company of 10 Cane Rum, apologizing profusely for my unfortunate discovery. The next business day they had a new bottle FedEx’d out to me to replace the one with the fly. Quite unexpected and yet very awesome customer service to compliment the awesome rum. Time for a mojito.