Kirk and Sweeney XO Rum Edition No. 3

XO Edition No. 3 is Kirk and Sweeney's limited top shelf — a numbered release above the standing range, from the brand named for a Prohibition rum-running schooner seized by the Coast Guard in 1924. Kirk and Sweeney rum is made at Bermudez in the Dominican Republic from blackstrap molasses and aged in used American oak; the brand's core lineup went ageless in 2020, and the XO editions are its way of releasing the oldest stocks in small batches, in the bulbous bottle modeled on the schooner's demijohns. Edition No. 3 is a blend drawn from the brand's most mature barrels — the lineage of the discontinued 23 Year — bottled at 40% ABV in a numbered run; check your label for the batch details. The house style is Dominican and Spanish: expect a deep amber pour with a nose of dark caramel, toffee, raisin, fig, and toasted oak with a faint smokiness from the French-oak component Rum Ratings' drinkers pick up across the range, opening into a rich, rounded, sweet-leaning palate of brown sugar, vanilla, dried fruit, allspice, and cocoa with a walnut dryness through the long, gentle finish. Honest note: enthusiasts note the brand's age statements have always been debated, and this is a soft, sweet-leaning Dominican sipper rather than a dry cask-strength rum — for the Kirk and Sweeney fan who wants the rarest bottle in the range, and for the gift shelf. For a cigar, a dessert pour, or a very smooth Old Fashioned. Edition No. 3, numbered.

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