Samaroli Rum 2003

Samaroli released this Guyana Rum 2003 as a twenty year old single cask at 46 percent, in the house's unsweetened, continentally aged, reduced-proof style. No specific heritage still is named, so the bottle is best read through its Samaroli pedigree and its own distinctive tropical-fruit profile.

Matured for two decades, it noses woody with pineapple, a sulphur edge and mango, the palate turning to wood, brown sugar, peaches and lemon peel, finishing woody, minty and lightly chili-spiced. The bright tropical fruit sets it apart from the darker, anise-led Demerara stereotype, balanced here against the bitterness and liquorice that drinkers recognise as Guyanese. Bottled dry at a moderate strength, it is a well-balanced single cask with a fine mouthfeel, an elegant and fruit-forward older Guyanese rum in the considered Samaroli manner.