Myers‘s Planter‘s Punch Brand Old Rum

Myers's is one of the old names of Jamaican rum, a blended style built for mixing rather than contemplative sipping. This Planter's Punch Brand Old Rum is the traditional dark blend, molasses based and bottled at a gentle 40%, the sort of rum that has poured into punches and long drinks for generations.

The profile is straightforward and on the sweeter, mellow side of dark rum. The aroma offers raisin, banana, marzipan and licorice, the palate brings banana, black pepper, plum and caramel, and the finish is short, on banana and tobacco. It is unsweetened, dark and lightly spiced rather than funky or intense, with none of the high ester drama of the single distillery bottlings. Honest about what it is, this is a workhorse mixing rum, at home in a Planter's Punch or even baked into a rum cake, rather than a neat pour for ester hunters.