Ferroni Brut de fût (Ex US + FR Rasteau) 2012

Maison Ferroni of Provence specialises in craft cask-strength Brut de Fut rums, unsweetened and double-matured in southern France in ex-sweet-wine casks. This Barbados single cask, vintage 2012, has been aged first in an ex-US bourbon barrel and then finished in a French Rasteau cask, the fortified Rhone sweet wine, before bottling overproof at 63.1% without added sugar. Barbados trades on its balanced pot and column character, typically toffee, brown sugar, banana and vanilla over soft spice, and the Rasteau finish should layer in dried fruit, fig and a touch of sweet-wine richness. At 63.1% this is a powerful, concentrated expression where the cask influence and the Bajan base both show clearly. A bold, dry, full-proof Barbados single cask.