Holmes Cay Guyana Uitvlugt 2003 Rum

Holmes Cay's Guyana Uitvlugt 2003 was rated 96 points — and RumX's community scores it 8.5, tied for the highest in the range, describing a smooth, caramel-and-dried-fruit Guyana sipper. Holmes Cay is Eric Kaye's New York-based independent bottler, founded in 2019 to bring single-cask, cask-strength, additive-free rum to America with full transparency; Esquire named it one of the ten best rum brands. Uitvlugt is a closed Demerara distillery, shuttered in 2000, whose historic French four-column Savalle still was moved to Demerara Distillers' Diamond plant, where it still runs under the Uitvlugt marque; this rum was distilled on that Savalle still in 2003, aged in ex-bourbon oak — the release has appeared at eighteen years and at twenty-one; check your label — and bottled in New York State at 51% ABV with no sugar, color, or flavoring. Savalle-still Demerara is the elegant end of Guyana's spectrum — cleaner and more refined than the wooden Port Mourant and Enmore stills, with the region's dark-sugar depth intact. Expect a nose of caramel, raisin, dried apricot, toffee, and gentle oak with a faint licorice note, opening into a smooth, rounded, dry palate of brown sugar, dried fruit, and baking spice, finishing long and elegant — the most approachable cask-strength Demerara you'll find. Honest note: a single cask, priced for rarity and a 96-point score. Neat, with a drop of water. A closed distillery's still, two decades on.

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