Cadenhead‘s Green Label Rum

This Green Label release from the Scottish house Cadenhead's is a twelve-year-old Panamanian rum, issued in the bottler's unsweetened, natural-strength tradition. Panama's soft, vanilla-spice column-distilled molasses style sits well with this hands-off approach, letting the spirit and ex-bourbon wood show without dosage.

Twelve years in bourbon barrels lend a clean, oak-forward profile. The aroma is vanilla, oak and a distinctly bourbon-like sweetness, the palate vanilla and gentle sweetness alongside almond and oak, and the finish carries almond, vanilla and a soft sweet edge. At 46% it drinks dry and well-structured, a Panamanian that leans on barrel-derived vanilla and nut rather than added sugar. It is a tidy, honest sipper for those who like the bridge between aged rum and bourbon.