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$306
A dry, technical Clarendon from 2008, EMB marque, leaning woody and funky with banana, solvents, black tea and tannins, a single cask bottled by Valinch & Mallet at cask strength 56.1%.
Description
Clarendon is one of Jamaica's workhorse suppliers, running both pot and column stills, and its pot-still marks, EMB among them, can be deeply funky. This single cask from the 2008 vintage, released by Valinch & Mallet under the Spirit of Art label, lands firmly on the dry, technical end of the Jamaican spectrum rather than the fruity-sweet one.
Distilled on the pot still from molasses and matured in ex-bourbon casks, it is bottled unsweetened at 56.1%. The nose opens on banana, solvents and overripe fruit, then the palate turns woody, dry and tannic with rubber, black tea, coffee and dark chocolate, and a mentholated tropical-fruit thread runs underneath. This is a powerful, oak-forward Clarendon that puts structure and solvent funk ahead of sweetness, a niche, characterful pour for drinkers who like their Jamaica dry, woody and a little challenging.
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