Silver Seal BRS 1986

Silver Seal BRS 1986 is an aged Barbados single cask from the collector respected Italian bottler Silver Seal. It draws on the Rockley style, the smoky, honeyed, medicinal profile historically tied to WIRD distillate, and at 33 years old this is an old and intense expression of it.

Distilled on a pot still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon oak to a natural cask strength of 58.8% without sweetening, it pours out honey, smoke, vanilla and herbs on the nose, then a palate of honeyed beeswax, woody smoke, leather and funky tropical fruit, finishing on wood, honey, liquorice and black tea. There are lime, peach and medicinal, dirty edges that mark it as something apart from modern Barbados rum. This is a bottle for drinkers who love intense Rockley character and are ready for cask strength old rum, rewarding long breathing time in the glass.