Rum Tasting | Notting Hill Carnival 60

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

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.

Tickets are £25. This is an 18+ event, ID may be required.

Part of Carnival 60, a six-month heritage programme marking the 60th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival. Produced by More Curricular CIC & Notting Hill Walks. All attendees require a ticket. Tickets are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to pass your ticket to someone else.