If you think I haven't answered your question, stay tuned and I'll list twenty of my favorites as soon as I can tell you where to buy them. The book Rums of the Eastern Caribbean is the only guide to the distilleries of the Eastern Caribbean from Puerto Rico to Trinidad. In fact, during the research I found that most of the tourism offices in the islands didn't have reliable information, so that was another reason to publish the first book. Incidentally, that book is now in its second edition. I would like to do a rum tasting with my friends.
Variety is the most important ingredient.
When I do rum tastings in the islands I ask people to bring a bottle of whatever, and we meet on board a boat with a lot of room, usually a catamaran. I like to divide the rums by the islands of origin and group the rhum from the French islands on one side of the table and the rums from the other islands on the other side of the table. Try to find rums that are of different ages, and look for the effects of aging. Because a rum is the oldest or most expensive from a distillery, it may not be the one that you find most agreeable. I only drink rum and Coke.