Tasting Notes
After nine years in ex-bourbon wood, this went into a second fill Guyanese rum barrel. The nose promised juicy fruits (passion fruit, lime, chilli and salt on fresh pineapple) – and some vaguer notes of polished wood, emulsion paint, new tennis balls, and toasted barley floating in white rum. The powerful palate combined those fruit notes with greener stuff (fennel, asparagus and celery in a caesar cocktail), then black pepper, liquorice and oak to finish. The reduced nose discovered sugar-coated fennel seeds, liquorice allsorts and pears cooked in honey and clove. The taste (milder now) had candied rose petals and mulled port, clear boiled mints and menthol tobacco.