Kaniché Double Wood Perfección

Kaniche Double Wood Perfeccion is a Panamanian rum bottled by Maison Ferrand, the French house behind the cognac-cask approach, and the double-wood name points to that two-stage maturation. Built on both pot and column spirit, it has a touch more body than a purely light ron, and a cognac-cask finish rounds it out.

The nose offers vanilla, dried fruit, wood and sugarcane, the palate runs vanilla, sweet dried fruit and exotic fruit, and the finish settles into vanilla, dried fruit and a mild coconut note. It leans sweet, with light exotic fruit, honey and spice carrying the drink, and the cognac cask adds a soft fruity edge. The honest pitch is an easy, good-value sipper that drinks better balanced than many in its bracket, equally at home neat or in a mixer for anyone who likes a sweeter, fruit-led Panama.