Saint Aubin Porto Cask Finish

Saint Aubin is a Mauritian estate distillery working with fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice, and this Porto Cask Finish is a pot-still agricole-style rum given time in port wood. It sits in the estate's range alongside a Sauternes-finished sibling, and offers the rounder, fruit-led side of cask-finished island rum.

The port influence is clear but measured: the nose offers caramel, berries and port-wine fruit, the palate stays round and fruity with a gentle spice, and the finish swings drier toward wood, oak and a roasted note. The shift from sweet fruit to dry oak gives it more shape than a one-note finish rum. Bottled at 43% with the pot still lending a little extra body, it is an easy, agreeable sipper rather than a heavyweight, well suited to anyone exploring Mauritian cane-juice rum and the gentler end of port-cask maturation.