Excellence Rhum Port Mourant MPM 2008

Excellence Rhum selected this 2008 Port Mourant as a single cask, drawn from the double wooden pot still that gives the heaviest and most distinctive Demerara profile. PM is all oil, anise and liquorice, and this ten year old delivers that savoury signature at a high cask strength. Port maturation adds a fruity dimension to the spirit's natural intensity.

Molasses based and matured in port casks, it noses on spice, anise, liquorice and wood, with fresh raisin, caramel and citrus underneath, then carries peppery anise, liquorice and wood onto an oily palate touched with marzipan. A drop of water brings out a pear like fruit that lifts the herbal core. At 62.2% it is intensely spiced and very much a PM for those who know the marque, where the anise and pepper can run strong. Bottled without sweetening at full proof, it is a robust, herbal Port Mourant built for slow, attentive sipping.