Cadenhead 17 Year Monymusk Rum

Monymusk is the distillery behind most of Jamaica's rum that isn't Appleton or Hampden — the Clarendon estate's workhorse, whose heavy pot-still marques are prized by independent bottlers — and Cadenhead's gave a single cask of it seventeen years. Cadenhead's is the oldest independent bottler in Scotland, founded in 1842 and now based in Campbeltown, and it bottles rum the way it bottles whisky: single casks, no added sugar, no coloring, no chill filtration, natural strength, with the distillery, year, and cask details on the label. This is Monymusk distilled in 2003 and bottled at 17 years old at cask strength — 52.6% ABV on the Spirit Radar listing; check your label — from a single cask, in a limited run. Seventeen years of maturation, most of it in Scotland's cool climate, does something to Jamaican pot-still rum that tropical aging can't: expect the estate's signature funk — overripe banana, tropical fruit, a savory ester note — mellowed into something deeper, with dark caramel, dried fruit, leather, oak, and a long, warm, complex finish. RumX notes Cadenhead's rums have become a reference point for collectors precisely for this transparency and restraint, with a median community score of 8.4. Honest note: this is a collector's single cask at a collector's price, and Jamaican funk is not for everyone. For the rum enthusiast who wants seventeen years of Clarendon pot still with nothing done to it, it's the real thing. Neat, with a drop of water.

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