Skull Bay Dark Spiced Rum

Skull Bay Dark Spiced Rum is a Caribbean blend dressed in the dark, piratical style, a spiced rum bottled at a mild 37.5% with no age statement. It sits in the flavoured and sweetened category, the sort of accessible, easy drinking spiced bottling made more for relaxed pours and mixing than for close analysis of cask or origin.

The profile is soft and sweet, with spice on the nose opening to a smooth, vanilla led palate that drinks gently and without rough edges. There is little stated about its base or maturation, which fits a rum built around its added spice and sweetness rather than the spirit beneath, so it is fairest to read it as a sweet, approachable spiced rum. At low strength it slips easily into cola or a long drink and suits anyone after an undemanding, sweet leaning sip.