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Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Spirits of 2019
In 1920, when prohibition began, Captain Bill McCoy made a name for himself as America’s first “Rum Runner”. He delivered only the best quality unadulterated spirits which became known worldwide as The Real McCoy. This is the oldest rum every produced by the distillery. This limited edition rum (only 6,000 bottles produced) is aged 14 years in American oak bourbon barrels. The result is an incredibly complex rum with flavors of complex wood, honeyed spice, toffee and toasted caramel. It is bottled at 92 proof to provide unadulterated quality that is best enjoyed neat or on the rocks.
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This limited edition opens with the guns a-blazing: it's spicy and brisk, loaded with cinnamon and clove. The drying midpalate shifts to oak and walnut, then fades away on gentle, dreamy layers of brown sugar, caramel, orange peel and a hint of dried apricot.
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.