Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Finest Caribbean (2025 Blend)

Black Tot is Elixir Distillers of London's modern take on the navy ration, and this 2025 edition gathers molasses rums from across the Caribbean into a darker, comforting house style. It carries no age statement and sits at 46.2 percent, a step up in strength from the everyday entry blends without straying into full-proof territory, which is much of its appeal as a daily pour.

The profile runs to caramel sweetness, milk chocolate and toasted, faintly roasted wood, with apricot and pineapple turning up as it opens and a young-oak edge on the finish. It is bottled unsweetened, so the sweetness reads as cask and molasses rather than dosage, and the result is rounder and a touch fruitier than the heavier 2019 release. Easy neat, it slips just as happily into a daiquiri or a long mixed drink.