Black Magic Spiced

Black Magic Spiced is a sweet, flavoured American rum bottled at 40 percent, built for easy, dessert-leaning drinking rather than for analytical neat sipping. It sits firmly in the spiced category, trading on richness and a darker, chocolatey character.

Butterscotch, vanilla and caramel lead, deepened by dried fruit, treacle and a clear note of dark chocolate, with warm baking spice through the middle and a short, sweet finish. It runs a little sweeter and more cocoa-rich than the lighter end of the spiced field, which gives it a distinct, gourmand appeal. The sweetness is part of the design, so this is honest flavoured-rum territory: it is at its best poured over ice or stretched with cola, where its chocolate-and-caramel character carries the drink.