William Grant & Sons Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

Sailor Jerry is a spiced rum from William Grant and Sons, made on a Caribbean molasses base and dosed with spice and sweetening to a familiar, easy drinking profile. It is honest about what it is: a mixing rum rather than a slow sipper, designed to carry cola and long drinks rather than reward neat study.

Expect vanilla, cinnamon, caramel and brown sugar with a clear cola note, finishing sweet and syrupy with a little alcohol bite. The cinnamon comes through cleanly, which is exactly why it works in a rum and cola or a Cuba Libre. Taken neat it reads flat and rough next to aged sipping rum, so this is one to keep in the cocktail rotation. If your reference point is rum and cola at a bar, it will feel right at home; if you have moved on to neat aged rum, treat it as a mixer.