Stade’s Rum Old Gregg Fusion 2022

Stade's Rum Old Gregg Fusion is a Maison Ferrand release, a 2022 vintage Barbados blend that combines molasses rum with cane juice distillate. Blending the two base materials gives it a slightly funkier, more tropical edge than the textbook Bajan profile, and it sits at the young, approachable, value-minded end of the island's output, an easy entry to fruitier modern blends.

Distilled from molasses and sugar cane juice and matured in ex-bourbon oak, it keeps a sweet, oily shape at modest age. The aroma carries fruit, esters, spice and oak, the palate turns to woody tropical fruit with banana, and the finish brings pineapple and a final ester lift over wood. The cane juice component adds a honeyed, lightly funky character that lifts it above a plain molasses blend, easy and fruit-forward neat or in casual drinking. Its profile reads sweet and accessible, a friendly stepping stone bottling that carries its 46% lightly.