Distiller Notes
This 2005 vintage rum highlights the ancestral Jamaican style: a long fermentation and a 100% pot still distillation blended from the two mythic Long Pond and Clarendon distilleries.
After 12 years aging in Jamaica and 1 to 2 years in France, banana, prune, roasting coffee and raisin notes endow it with depth, while spices elevate the rum to a rare and distinguished spirit.
Proof: 90.4
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This burnished gold rum is scented with honey, caramelized lemon peel and cedar shavings. The velvety palate echoes those flavors, intertwining honey with lemony acidity into a spiced finish showing allspice and clove. Add water to temper the numbing alcohol heat; it also makes this rum feel a bit leaner and brings the cedar-and-spice profile forward.
Often referred to as a Gold Rum, an Aged Rum is one that has been aged in barrels, often Ex-Bourbon or White Oak before bottling. As the Rum continues to age, it draws more and more color and flavor from the wood, adding both body and complexity to the finished product. Aged Rums can be sipped neat or added to cocktails. They fall somewhere in between White and Dark Rums in terms of their respective strength of flavor.