Diplomatico Single Vintage 2005 Rum

Single Vintage is the top of Diplomático's range — one year's distillation, aged twelve years, then finished in sherry casks, released in limited numbers with a vintage on the label. Destilerías Unidas makes it at the foot of the Andes in La Miel, Venezuela, where the distillery has run since 1959: for the 2005, rums distilled that year on the house's copper pot stills and batch kettle from sugarcane honey and molasses were aged twelve years in ex-bourbon and ex-malt-whisky oak, then married for a final year in Oloroso sherry casks before bottling at 43% ABV in a numbered, wax-sealed bottle. The Lone Caner notes the Single Vintage and the Ambassador are the premiums Diplomático uses to keep the brand in the conversation. Expect the house style at its most layered: a nose of dried fig, raisin, dark chocolate, walnut, and the nutty oxidation of the sherry cask over caramel and vanilla, opening into a rich, rounded palate of toffee, orange peel, coffee, and baking spice with the sherry adding depth and a faint dryness the standard bottlings lack, finishing long and warm. Honest note: this is still a soft, sweet-leaning Venezuelan rum in the Diplomático house style — collectors of dry, cask-strength single casks should know — and it's priced as the brand's flagship. For a slow neat pour, a gift for a Reserva Exclusiva devotee, or the bottle that shows what the distillery does when it takes its time. 2005, in a wax-sealed bottle.

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