Romdeluxe Enmore Wild Series Rum Enmore No. 27 (batch 2) MEV 1990

RomDeluxe's Wild Series gathers high-strength, characterful single casks, and this Enmore No. 27 is a thirty-two-year closed-era Demerara bottled unsweetened at 53.9%. The marque points to Enmore's wooden Coffey lineage, though the data also flags Versailles-style wood, so the safest read is the classic Guyanese wooden-still signature of pencil and deep spice rather than a contested code.

Matured in ex-bourbon and tropically advanced, it rewards attention with pencil shavings, roasted wood, liquorice and a metallic mineral edge on the nose, then a palate of citrus, anise, minerality and wood. The finish is long and warm with roasted notes, more citrus and liquorice, while toffee, tea and faint yellow fruit fill out the body. This is a deep, demanding old Demerara for experienced palates, built for slow sipping and the kind of glass that keeps revealing more as it opens.