February is a time to celebrate! Win samples of the best rums of 2022 🤩

[Oliver]

I don’t think there is a method that prevents all kinds of exploitation. I feel that the described approach is a fair and transparent basis for evaluation, which underlines what it’s all about: the fun of tasting and sharing impressions.

[Thunderbird]

Genau so soll es sein

[BjoernNi]

Werden Fotos von Samplen mit Glas auch akzeptiert? Wenn man den Namen auf der Flasche sieht?

[ordogh]

Wow, that’s very generous! Exciting to taste in february too

[EmileShevek]

I purposely made another order of samples to review Excellent initiative, I always want to leave a description in the rating also to better remember certain details myself as well as share them with others, Salute!
Ps: (unfortunately I can’t use the forum from the app and since I use a google account the credentials are not valid from the browser)

[les]

4 sets

[NH43]

@les nope it´s 10 sets.

quote from Oliver initial post:

A chance to win 1 of 10 breathtaking sample sets (4x 2cl), which includes all the winners of the annual recap:

[Jarek]

Shit, my plan was to conclude the tasting of 2022 rum calendar, since I was not able to do it until now due to COVID. I hope photos with the samples are also OK
Regarding the personal notes:
I like them from some users, others are not very informative. On the other hand, some use the spider graph (which I really like) and others don’t.
And there are users which gives only a subjective number rating without any further information, no graph, no personal note, no tasting keywords.
If we start to require further input besides the photo, then only a complete input would be fair (color, spider graph, keywords, personal comments).

[w00tAN]

Hi,

this is really a good idea. I hope i will win one of the sample sets. But in my opionion the tasting notes are much more “valuable” then a picture of a glass/bottle.

In this point i agree totally with @Thunderbird, @Frank and @mto75. Even when @BjoernNi is a litte bit afraid of people with bad behavior, the benefit for us all is the explaination about the rating.
There are lots of ratings which are hard to understand without a word about the why and thats a pity. For example my ratings about the Sonthi rum, which had an average rating of 80 but my personal one was only forty. Now you can think i am an idiot or read my explaination that 30 grams of sugar its not a real rum for me.

And like every rating it is my or your subjective impression/experience so be nice and respect other opinions

Back to the topic: I would highly welcome when tasting notes are “pushed” next time

Thank you all
Matthias

[w00tAN]

Hi BjoerenNI
like thunderbird i am also surpised, no shocked, about your experience. Hopefully no one expects highly professional tasting notes with all kind of technical terms. I want to encourage you: Just share your impressions, even a smells like Havanna Club or perfect with coke can help

regards
Matthias

[RumTaTa]

Regards to @Oliver for this fantastic opportunity to win some monster rum samples!

I agree with you @w00tAN, and to me this was one of the conclusions in the discussion about RumX rating system and rating guide

[w00tAN]

Nice! I honestly haven’t seen this discussion.
I will read it later. Thank you for sharing it!

[Oliver]

We have discussed a lot how we can make the event as transparent and fair as possible. The criterion of adding a tasting photo has prevailed in order to create a certain hurdle and thus not provoke “re-posting” of old tastings.

Of course, we welcome the most detailed tasting notes, preferably with comments and tags/sliders, but again: We did not want to create an incentive for random comments and non-selective tags in order to maintain the integrity of the rating portal. Therefore, we considered the criterion of a new tasting photo as the most appropriate - but of course we are aware that this is also not a perfect solution - but I think a very good one.

However, as I said, in the end it’s all about one thing: The fun of tasting and sharing impressions.

[mto75]

Mist, mit 2 bin ich aktuell schon raus…wird vermutlich schwer, da mithalten zu können (ohne irgendwie im
Dauerdelirium zu enden )

[Oliver]

You have the chance to win a sample set with only one tasting. A lot of tastings are no guarantee for a drawing, but only increase the chances.

[mto75]

ja, ich weiss, und ich sehe das ja auch entspannt, wie Du geschrieben hattest…it‘s about the fun of tasting and sharing impressions

[Jakob]

Yes, definitely! We are a tasting community and it is obviously impossible to have a bottle of each rum release at home - samples are the perfect option to taste a wide range of different rums and are therefore considered absolutely equal to a full bottle in this little competition. To make the picture specific it would of course help to see the label on the sample bottle though.
We’re looking forward to your tasting notes!

[Flo1977]

I always taste a whole bottle with 70cl so it will be hard to get among the top ten as I can only drink one rum a day

[Oliver]

List updated.

[TheJackDrop]

This is crazy ! Great News.
Big up to the team.