Worthy Park Special Barrel Series WPE 2017

This Special Barrel Series WPE is a Worthy Park estate single cask drawn from the higher-ester WPE marque, distilled in 2017 and bottled young at three years old. Worthy Park is single-estate and 100% pot still, known for clean, precise rum, and WPE pushes its ester ceiling, so even at this age the bottle delivers a bright, fruit-forward Jamaican funk.

Distilled on the Forsyths still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon oak, the youth keeps it fresh and lively rather than heavily oaked. The nose is ester, tropical fruit, banana and lemon; the palate carries ester, tropical fruit, young wood and a herbal, spicy lift, closing dry with tropical fruit, barrel and spice. Bottled unsweetened at 57%, it shows the estate's signature green-apple-and-banana fruit basket with extra proof and bite. A strong pick for explorers ready for higher-ester Worthy Park, equally good neat or in cocktails that want real fruit and punch.