Ten To One‘s first single barrel bottling was a well-aged 17 yr previous cask from Trinidad, and now the indie bottling operation is again with not one follow-up however three — all single cask releases and all 18 years previous, from three completely different nations: Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica.
These barrels mark the official launch of Ten To One Rum’s Reserve Cask Assortment, and they’re very restricted choices, with solely round 325 bottles of every cask out there worldwide. No distillery or manufacturing particulars have been supplied with our samples, so let’s dive proper in.
Every is 92 proof.
Ten To One Reserve Cask Rum 18 Years Outdated Barbados Evaluate
Surprisingly industrial on the nostril, with weighty notes of acetone, furnishings polish, and stewed prunes. Greater than a bit overbearing, the highly effective aromas ultimately flip to fragrance and dried flowers, with an underbelly of dates and figs. Intense and unrelenting, the palate feels a lot the identical — fairly fruity and pushy, with a large floral character that evokes a fistful of potpourri — and an ample industrial high quality to again it up. Notes of extraordinarily ripe banana combine with inexperienced herbs because the end builds, chased by nutmeg and — inevitably — a biting acetone be aware. This rum is a powerhouse any manner you chop it, and whereas it’s too overbearing to sip by itself, it could be a pleasant addition to a mix of rums in an upscale cocktail, or when used as a float, if deployed sparingly. B+
Ten To One Reserve Cask Rum 18 Years Outdated Jamaica Evaluate
This can be a basic Jamaican expertise, deploying huge esters to the nostril, touched with hogo and a large quantity of baking spice. It’s almost as floral because the Barbados expression, however the Jamaica bottling showcases completely different flowers — right here lilac and marigold over the roses that dominate the Barbados launch. The palate gives an identical expertise, although once more there’s an industrial edge to the proceedings that evokes the numerous age of this barrel. The rum is more and more biting because it develops, these estery notes wrapping across the tongue to create an expertise that’s, once more, overtly floral and a bit industrial, with a soapy, disinfectant end. I tempered this one with some water as a result of the influence was so overwhelming, however I nonetheless struggled to wrap my thoughts (and palate) round it. B
Ten To One Reserve Cask Rum 18 Years Outdated Trinidad Evaluate
Trinidad was the supply of the 17 yr previous Single Cask launch, so I anticipate this is similar distillate, only one yr older. It’s a a lot completely different rum than the above pair, a extra conventional (and welcome) providing of caramel, vanilla, brown banana, and spice, all layered on an immersive and soothing — relatively than biting — nostril. That banana builds and builds within the glass, its fruit changing into candy-coated and more and more layered with caramel and chocolate on the palate. I didn’t get almost as a lot of the tough hogo high quality I discovered within the 17 yr previous (although that was additionally a single barrel), although there’s a troublesome underbelly at occasions that comes throughout as barely beefy and a bit vegetal. That mentioned, there’s no scarcity of energy to admire, the full-bodied rum concluding with balancing notes of baked apples, white chocolate, and gingerbread. Versatile and really a lot sippable by itself. A
every $199
Ten To One Reserve Cask Rum 18 Years Outdated Trinidad
USD199
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