Capulet & Montague Brands GmbH Bonpland

Bonpland is the rum line from Capulet and Montague Brands, and this Barbados bottling carries twenty years behind it before reduction to 45%. It sits in the island idiom of pot and column distillate, though the house signature here is the cask treatment rather than the base spirit, a wine finish laid over aged Bajan rum.

The molasses distillate spent its life in ex-bourbon oak before the wine cask stepped in, and that influence is plain in the glass. Aromas of young wood and dried apricot meet a distinct vinous note, while the palate turns woody and dry with dark chocolate and a smoky thread running into the finish alongside milk chocolate. The wine character divides opinion, sitting forward over the underlying spirit, so this reads as a rum for drinkers who enjoy a vinous overlay rather than a clean expression of unhurried Barbados oak.