Alcoholes Y Rones de SA Origenes 30 Years

Alcoholes Y Rones de Panama is one of the country's bulk producing distilleries, supplying the soft, mellow column still molasses rum that has made Panama a quiet engine of the Spanish style. This Origenes wears a 30 year statement and rests in ex-bourbon casks, bottled at a gentle 40% for unhurried sipping.

The nose is sweet and inviting with caramel, vanilla, coconut and coffee, and the palate follows into sweet vanilla, coffee and chocolate, though the texture runs thin and almost watery for its age. Plenty of wood shows from the long maturation, yet the overall impression is mild and dessert like rather than deep or powerful. Taken on those terms it is a soft, easy after dinner glass, best enjoyed neat for its toffee and coffee sweetness rather than approached expecting intensity to match the years on the label.