Duncan Taylor Long Pond Single Cask Rum 2000

Bottled by Duncan Taylor, the Scottish whisky house known for natural single cask selections, this is a 2000 vintage Long Pond aged sixteen years and drawn from one ex-bourbon barrel. Long Pond is a historic Trelawny Wedderburn distillery whose pot still rums run fruit forward and funky, and at this age the wilder edges have settled into a deeper, more composed expression of the marque.

Distilled on pot still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon, it shows chocolate, tropical fruit and a nutty aroma, then a palate of warm wood, citrus, nuts and a cereal note, closing on milk chocolate, fruit and honey. At 54.1% the strength is present but well integrated, the cask lending depth without smothering the distillate. Unsweetened and bottled from a single barrel, it is a rounded, mature Jamaican that trades raw solvent funk for layered fruit and sweet oak.