Corman Collins New Yarmouth Rum New Yarmouth (The Auld Alliance) 1994

This New Yarmouth was bottled by Corman Collins for The Auld Alliance, distilled in 1994 and bottled at twenty-seven years old. New Yarmouth in Clarendon has become an independent-bottler darling, and its long-aged 1994 column-still vintage has a distinct reputation: less raw funk, more deep, dark, chocolatey richness than the distillery's younger pot-still releases.

Distilled on the column still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon oak, the long ageing builds a rounded, mellow profile despite the strength. The nose gives caramel, coconut, spice and milk chocolate; the palate carries spice, nutty notes, tropical fruit and vanilla, closing woody with coconut, milk chocolate and caramel, threaded with a little acetone and coffee-tobacco depth. Unsweetened and bottled at a punchy 67.1%, the alcohol is so well integrated it drinks far below its proof. A dark, elegant old New Yarmouth for experienced palates who enjoy the 1994 vintage or tropical-aged powerhouses, best sipped slowly.