Plantation Single Cask (Vinkyperen) 2003

This single cask comes from Plantation, Maison Ferrand's cocktail-acclaimed range, bottled for the retailer Vinkyperen. It is a Barbados rum, vintage 2003 and aged 12 years in ex-bourbon oak before bottling at 44.1%. While listed as unsweetened, Plantation typically finishes its rums with dosage and the record suggests a touch of added sugar here, so expect a soft, rounded character rather than a bone-dry one. The pot and column base gives the balanced Bajan profile, typically toffee, banana, vanilla and warm spice over light oak. At 44.1% and twelve years it reads as a smooth, approachable single cask in the recognisable Ferrand house style, an easy sipper that leans on richness rather than intensity.