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Sugar cane is used to make all rum. Either sugar cane juice or, more commonly, molasses, a byproduct of sugar manufacturing, can be used to distil it. Generally speaking, rums made from cane juice are fresher and fruitier, whereas rums made from molasses will have richer flavours.
To start the fermentation process, water and yeast are added to the juice or molasses. After that, the liquid is distilled using a column still or a pot still. Aged rums are often created in pot stills to yield a stronger spirit, whereas column stills are used to make unaged rums. However, distillers usually combine spirits from both kinds of stills to get a certain flavour character.
Following distillation, the rum can be taken immediately from the still and bottled, or it can be let sit for a short while in oak barrels before being filtered to create unaged, light, or white rum. The process of making dark rum involves ageing the spirit for several years in oak barrels. The kind of cask used affects the final flavour; rich, complex flavours are produced by using whisky and Bourbon casks.
Usually, a blend of barrels from different ages, finishes, production processes, and even nations is used to create the final dark rum. This is the craft of the master blenders, who have refined their abilities via intensive training and tasting.
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Appleton Estate 15-Year-Old Black River Casks
Appleton Estate sources the water for all of its rums, including this aged blend of pot and column still rums made by Master Blender Joy Spence from Jamaica's Black River. The aroma of caramel and vanilla with hints of dark spices, ginger, light fruit cake, and dried orange peel. With a lengthy, complex finish, the palate is intense and loaded with woody spice, black toffee, ripe banana, coffee, pink pepper, and leather.
Barceló Organic Rum
A certified carbon-neutral rum producer, Ron Barceló is based in the Dominican Republic. The newest product in its lineup, Barceló Organic Rum, is the first organic rum produced in the Dominican Republic. It is aged in American oak barrels and prepared from freshly squeezed juice from 150 hectares of organically cultivated sugar cane. Banana and cherry scents are pleasing and subtle, accompanied by cocoa, fruit cake, and a hint of pink peppercorns. With layers of tropical fruit, caramel, Madeira cake, and ginger, the palate is creamy and silky, and the finish has deeper notes of tobacco and chocolate. In a Rum Old Fashioned, try it.
Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva Dark Rum
Diplomático, a Venezuelan rum, was just purchased by the world's largest spirits firm, Brown-Forman, and is now the company's first global offering. The signature Reserva Exclusiva from Diplomático is a beautiful blend of flavours of dried fruit, figs, creamy caramel, toffee apple, vanilla, and spice. It has a deep, silky scent. Rich, creamy richness with layers of golden toffee, dark fruit cake, vanilla, bourbon, butterscotch, spice, banana, and ripe mango, all tempered by a strong, spicy kick.
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Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1
Having only been introduced to the rum market three years ago, Cuba's Eminente is a recent addition. Eminente Amber Claro, who is three years old, and Eminente Reserva, who is seven years old, are the predecessors of this new 10-year-old release. Crafted by César Marti, the youngest Maestro Ronero from Cuba, it is renowned for having a significant amount of aguardiente in the mixture. Nose notes of roasted pineapple, butterscotch, lemon tart, ginger cake, and zesty citrus. Along with fresh green and woody elements, the spicy palate features flavours of dark chocolate, dried orange peel, toasted coconut, and ripe mango.
La Hechicera
This captivating combination of Colombian rum, named "the enchantress" in Spanish, is matured in a solera, a former Bourbon barrel. Notes of toffee, coffee, chocolate, green banana, and banana leaf can be detected on the nose. A lengthy finish with flavours of caramel sauce, dried fruit, fresh lemon, and black pepper leads to an elegant, dry palate with lots of woody spice, chilli, peppercorns, and cassia bark.
Mount Gay: The Master Blender Collection: The PX Sherry Cask Expression
The sixth release of the Master Blender Collection from Barbados' Mount Gay, the world's oldest rum distillery, is this limited edition. Master Blender Trudiann Branker produced this unique blend of pot and column still rums, which is stored in Bourbon casks for at least 20 years before being completed for an additional year in Pedro Ximénez Sherry casks. This is a first for Mount Gay. Give it some time to open up in your glass and show fruity notes of plum and cherry, along with caramel, bananas, salted nuts, and toasted vanilla. It's long, complex, and layered.
Ron Santiago De Cuba Extra Añejo 20 Años
Ron Santiago, the second-largest rum distillery in Cuba after Havana Club, has redesigned and reintroduced its oldest expression, which has been matured for at least 20 years. Warm, woodsy scents with lots of spice and hints of muscovado sugar and black Jamaican ginger cake. There's more spice on the complex palate, which also has flavours of star anise and clove that linger on the finish. You'll notice thick, creamy caramel along with tropical fruit like banana and mango.
Takamaka Pti Lakaz
Made on the Seychelles' island of Maheʁ, Takamaka rums have a variety of production methods, including pot and column distillation, molasses and cane sugar rums, and maturing in several types of casks. Pti Lakaz is a combination of two Seychelles rums: an eight-year-old molasses rum from Foursquare Distillery in Barbados and a pot-distilled cane rum matured in three different types of oak. It begins with a scent of tropical fruit, toffee, and spices. Rich and round, with notes of bananas, caramel, ripe tropical fruit, Madeira cake, malted milk biscuits, and mild brown spices, followed by a lengthy, spicy aftertaste. Ideal for a sweet rum punch.
