Dictador Rum 2 Masters Laballe Armagnac

2 Masters is Dictador's luxury series — launched in 2018 for collectors, each release a collaboration between Hernán Parra, Dictador's master blender in Cartagena, and a master from another spirit — and the Laballe edition pairs Colombian rum with Gascony's rustic grape brandy. Destilería Colombiana was founded in 1913 by Don Julio Arango y Ferro; its rum, made from virgin sugarcane honey and distilled in copper pot and column stills, is almost entirely exported. For this edition, vintage Dictador rum aged in Colombia was shipped to the Bas-Armagnac, where Cyril Laudet's Château Laballe — a family estate since 1820 — finished it in casks that had held their armagnac before bottling at cask strength in a numbered decanter; check your label for the vintage, ABV, and outturn. Armagnac is cognac's earthier cousin — single-distilled on a column, aged in Gascon black oak, prized for prune, tobacco, and rancio — and it meets Dictador's coffee, cocoa, and toffee with force: expect prune, dried fig, walnut, leather, and toasted oak layered over the rum's dark chocolate and spice, a savory, almost meaty depth, and a very long, dry, warming finish. Honest note: this is a collector's and investor's bottle in a numbered run, priced accordingly — and of the 2 Masters editions it's the boldest and most rustic. For the armagnac drinker curious about rum, or the collector who wants Gascony in the finish. Neat, slowly, ideally with a cigar.

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