Infinity Spirits The Royal Cane Cask Company 2000 John Dore

The Royal Cane Cask Company 2000 John Dore is an Infinity Spirits bottling of rum from St Lucia Distillers, a single cask of molasses rum distilled on a John Dore pot still in 2000 and matured 22 years, unsweetened, bottled at 49.6%. The John Dore name signals heritage pot still pedigree, and this is a continental aged rum, which keeps maturation gentle over its long life.

The nose is woody and herbal with smoke and oak, the palate brings oak, tobacco, tropical fruit and orange peel, and the finish turns to black tea, bitterness and wood with a warm, spicy touch. Drinkers find it dry and characteristically St Lucian, though the long continental ageing and the reduction to under 50% leave it tame, with fruit and honey, including a lychee note, tending to dominate. It shows real maturity and a natural sweetness rather than big cask strength power, a restrained, wood led pour for those who enjoy drier island profiles.