Cadenheads 10 Year Panama Rum

Panama makes light, column-still rum in the Spanish style — the base of Ron Abuelo and the source for many a sweetened premium brand — and Cadenhead's shows what it tastes like with nothing added. Cadenhead's is the oldest independent bottler in Scotland, founded in 1842 and based in Campbeltown, and it bottles rum the way it bottles whisky: no added sugar, no coloring, no chill filtration, with the origin and age on the label. This is Panamanian rum aged ten years, most of it in Scotland's cool climate, bottled at natural strength in the Green Label series; check your label for the exact ABV. The point of a bottle like this is contrast: most Panamanian rum on the shelf carries added sugar and caramel color to round it out, and Cadenhead's doesn't. Expect a drier, more honest version of the style — a nose of light caramel, vanilla, coconut, and gentle oak with a faint grassy sugarcane note, opening into a clean, smooth, medium-bodied palate of toffee, baking spice, and wood, finishing crisp and moderately long without the syrupy sweetness of the brand-name Panamanians. Honest note: Master of Malt's reviewers of the Classic blend found Panamanian column still the lightest voice in the room — this is the quiet, elegant end of Cadenhead's range, for a drinker who wants to taste what a Spanish-style rum is before the sugar goes in. Neat, or an unusually dry Rum Old Fashioned. RumX's Cadenhead's community median: 8.4.

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