The Duppy Share Spiced

700ml / 37.5%

Blended Rum, Flavoured Rum

$27

A Caribbean spiced blend at 37.5 percent built on pot and column stills, big on pineapple, orange and candy-sweet spice with a citrus-bitter edge, a fun, sweet summer mixer made for cola rather than for slow neat sipping.

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Description

The Duppy Share Spiced takes a blend of Caribbean molasses rum from pot and column stills, drawn from several distilleries and carrying a five year age, then leans into bright fruit and sweetness. Bottled at 37.5 percent and matured in ex-bourbon oak before flavouring, it is squarely a crowd-pleasing mixer rather than a contemplative pour.

Pineapple leads, joined by orange and a candied, confected sweetness, with the spicing reading more as fruity sweetness than as classic clove and cinnamon. The finish turns citrus and faintly bitter, with a grapefruit twist. This is honest fun rather than a dry, structured rum: it shines stretched with cola or built into a fruity cocktail, and drinkers who already favour drier, more serious styles will want to look elsewhere.

Additional information

Weight

1.6 kg

Style

Blended Rum, Flavoured Rum