$126
A Mauritian molasses rum from independent House of Mc Callum, eleven years old and finished in a Laphroaig Islay cask, bottled unsweetened at cask strength 49.5%, where tropical aged rum takes on heavy peat smoke.
Description
House of Mc Callum's Mc Explorer line bottles rum from across the world, and this Art of Rum release draws on Mauritian molasses distillate aged around eleven years before a finishing period in a cask that held heavily peated Laphroaig single malt from Islay. It is bottled unsweetened at a full proof 49.5%.
The Islay cask is the headline. Aged Mauritian molasses rum tends to run warm and rounded, and here it is wrapped in the medicinal, smoky character that a Laphroaig cask leaves behind. Bottled dry and at strength, this is a smoke forward rum that drinks closer to a peated whisky than a sweet island pour, one for those who like the two styles to collide.
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