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USA SHIPPING FROM $28
EU SHIPPING FROM €16
$32
A flavoured Spanish rum bottled by Bodegas Williams and Humbert at a low 34%, light and sweet with a single dominant apple note running through nose, palate and finish, closer to an easy fruit liqueur than a dry aged sipper.
Description
Tripulante comes from Bodegas Williams and Humbert, the Jerez house better known for sherry, and this is a flavoured rum built for gentle, accessible drinking. At just 34% it sits below full rum strength, and the profile is simple and sweet, centred almost entirely on apple, with a fruity lift on the nose carrying straight through to the finish.
With base material, distillation and cask all unstated and the strength kept deliberately low, this is plainly a sweetened, flavour led bottling rather than a spirit aiming for depth or oak. Some tasters read more confected spice in the glass than apple, but the overall impression is of an undemanding, dessert like pour. Honest framing matters here: it is a soft, sweet, fruit driven rum liqueur in spirit, suited to easy sipping or simple mixing rather than to drinkers seeking dry, structured aged rum.
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