Elizabeth Yard Travellers Single Cask Rum 2006

Elizabeth Yard bottle this single cask from Belize's Travellers distillery, a 2006 vintage molasses rum aged sixteen years and released at 49.47% cask strength. Travellers has become a sought after source for independent bottlers chasing characterful Central American rum, and this long aged, additive free single cask shows why, matured in ex-bourbon oak and bottled without dilution.

Sixteen years have given it real depth and an oily, round texture: the nose is woody and roasted with chocolate and coconut, the palate stays oily and round with that roasted, woody core, and the finish turns woody and roasted with cherry and orange lifting the close. This is a rich, full bodied rum where long maturation and cask strength combine to deliver concentration without sweetness. At nearly 50% it drinks with weight and grip, a rewarding pour for drinkers who favour deep, roasted, oak driven rum.