Hamilton Saint Lucia 9 Year Cask Strength Rum

The 9 Year is the one Inu A Kena's reader called incredible, whether at cask strength or diluted — and The Lone Caner's pick of the Hamilton Saint Lucias. Ed Hamilton is the Ministry of Rum: the sailor, author, and importer who spent decades documenting Caribbean distilleries and then began bottling their rums unsweetened, honestly labeled, and with batch numbers that unlock full production details online. Between 2013 and 2015 he released a handful of cask-strength single casks from St. Lucia Distillers, the island's only distillery, and then stopped; nothing has been added since. The 9 Year came off SLD's 2,000-liter Vendome pot still in October 2005, condensed at around 82%, aged in ex-bourbon oak on the island, was shipped to New York in its cask, and was bottled in January 2015 from seven casks — 144 cases, 1,728 bottles — with nothing added, at 67.4% ABV. Memphis Rum Club, tasting cask 90115, found cinnamon-raisin bread, orange rind, underripe blueberry, pineapple juice, dates, rotting banana peel, and window cleaner on the nose, then rotting banana, grapefruit, permanent marker, vanilla, green apple, and molasses. Rum Revelations: strong on chocolate and oak, with Smarties, raspberry, fresh paint, candle wax, brine, and vanilla. Honest note: Saint Lucian funk is its own thing — industrial, savory, dense — at a proof that demands water, and this is a collector's cask priced for scarcity. Neat, with water, slowly. The one the fans chose.

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