Bedford Park 5 Year Reunion Island Single Barrel Rum

Bedford Park is a Toronto-based independent bottler that has become one of the most exciting names in North American rum — selecting single casks from distilleries like Hampden, Foursquare, and Caroni, bottling them at cask strength with no additives or chill filtration, and dressing them in the "Shady Grove" label art of Toronto artist Elise Conlin. Distributed stateside by Raising Glasses. This Réunion Island 5 Year is one of the bottler's most acclaimed releases — RumX's community scores it 9.0 out of 10 — and Bedford Park's own note is that it will intrigue any rum drinker. Réunion is the French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar with a rum tradition stretching back centuries, and this is not the distillery's typical offering: distilled in 2019, moved to Europe in 2020, and matured in a once-used bourbon barrel until bottling at 67.7% ABV. Expect a nose that lands somewhere between Jamaican funk and French agricole — overripe tropical fruit, olive brine, fresh cane, and an earthy, savory ester note — opening into a dense, oily palate of banana, dried fruit, pepper, and light vanilla from the barrel, finishing long, dry, and vividly funky. Non-chill filtered, no additives, cask number and outturn on the label. A rum from a place most drinkers have never tasted, bottled by a house whose Hampden LROK 2000 sits among RumX's best-rated rums anywhere. Add water; it rewards patience. When the outturn is gone, it's gone.

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