Red Leg Spiced Rum

Red Leg Spiced Rum is a flavoured spiced rum from the British brand Red Leg, bottled at a modest 37.5%. It is a sweetened, spiced style and reads exactly that way, an approachable bottle aimed at newcomers and mixed drinks rather than neat contemplation.

The profile leans heavily sweet, with vanilla, butterscotch and burnt sugar joined by cinnamon, ginger and stewed apple, and a milk chocolate, faintly grapefruit tinged finish. There is a slightly bitter, peppery edge that keeps it from being entirely one note, but the sugar and the soft spicing dominate throughout. At this strength and sweetness it is firmly a mixer, doing its best work in a rum and cola or a simple sweet cocktail where the vanilla and spice carry through. Drinkers chasing depth or a dry, pure rum character will find it too sugary and simple, but as an easy spiced mixer it is honest and serviceable.