Planteray (PX Cask Finish) 2012

Planteray (PX Cask Finish) 2012 is a single cask rum from Maison Ferrand, the French house behind the Planteray and Plantation range, known for double ageing and an openly accessible style. Sourced from Spain, distilled in 2012 and aged 12 years, it is finished in a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask and bottled at a gentle 42.6%.

The PX cask is the headline, lending sweet sherry, dried fruit and a nutty richness over the base spirit. The nose shows vanilla, caramel and sherry, the palate turns sweet and sherried with nuts and dried fruit, and the finish runs nutty and coffee tinged with an earthy, faintly smoky edge. It drinks soft and rounded, more like a gentle, sherry finished whisky than a powerful rum, the sweetness sitting forward rather than the distillate. This is an easy going, whisky adjacent sipper or mixer for those who enjoy PX sweetness, rather than a layered or assertive showpiece.