Dugas La Maison du Rhum Millionario #5 2012

Dugas releases this Millionario #5 2012 under the La Maison du Rhum banner, sourced from Hacienda Agricola de Chiclayo in Peru. It sits in the sweet, dessert leaning Spanish style camp, distilled from molasses and aged ten years in ex bourbon wood, with a nose of brown sugar, coffee, wood and plum. Bottled at 48%, it carries decent weight for a soft style rum.

The palate is woody and rich, leather, plum and orange over the brown sugar base, the spirit needing a moment to open up. This is a sweetened release, and the sugar gives a rounded, gentle feel even at 48%, balancing the wood and dark fruit into an easy drinking whole. It reads as a soft yet woody Peruvian sipper, the kind of dessert adjacent pour that suits drinkers who like their aged rum sweet, fruit driven and approachable rather than dry and structural.