Domaine de Séverin Marsolle No. 3 (Acacia Finish)

This is the Marsolle No. 3 from Domaine de Severin in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, a single cask finished in acacia wood rather than the usual oak. Acacia is a porous, pale timber that lends a softer, more honeyed and vanilla-forward signature than American oak, and here it pushes a young cane-juice rum toward dark chocolate and caramel.

The base is fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice distilled in the agricole manner on a creole column, so under the wood there is still a grassy, herbaceous lift typical of the style. Bottled unsweetened at 45% under Guadeloupe IGP, it keeps the dry agricole backbone while the acacia rounds the edges into chocolate and caramel. The finish is the talking point: a less common cask choice that gives a familiar island spirit a gentler, dessert-leaning twist without tipping into sweetness.