Silver Seal Enmore Demerara New Vibrations 1988

Silver Seal bottled this single cask of Enmore from the 1988 vintage in its New Vibrations line, an elegant thirty-four year old. The label names Enmore, the estate home to Guyana's wooden Coffey still, and the long maturation has left a dry, deeply woody spirit where the oak has very much had its say.

Molasses based and matured in ex-bourbon oak to a dry, unsweetened finish, it leads with a splendid nose of prune, wood and light leather. The palate is tight and tannic with stewed dark fruit, the finish woody with dried fruit, tobacco and barrel. After three and a half decades the cask sits front and centre, and some will find it on the timbered side, but the fruit and leather hold their ground. At 47.9 percent it is a refined, dry old Enmore best taken neat and slowly by patient tasters.