El Dorado High Ester Blend PM/DHE Rum

PM/DHE is the High Ester Blend with the oldest still in the world in it. Demerara Distillers Limited launched the High Ester series in 2024 as a run of nine releases marrying its historic marques with Diamond High Ester — the long-fermented, pungent, funky spirit Guyanese drinkers knew only from the locally sold Superior High Wine — and this edition pairs DHE with PM: Port Mourant, the double wooden pot still built in 1732 and still running at Plantation Diamond, the source of the heavy, smoky, licorice-and-funk character that defines Demerara rum. Blended, aged in ex-bourbon oak in the tropics, and bottled at a higher proof than the core range; check your label for ABV. Rum Ratings' drinkers score it 8.3. Where the LBI/DHE edition is Savalle-clean and grassy under the esters, the PM/DHE is heavier: expect a nose of overripe banana, tropical fruit, glue-like esters, and the Port Mourant signature of licorice, wood smoke, and wet oak, opening into a dense, dry, savory palate of molasses, pepper, and funk with the wooden still's smoky depth, finishing very long. The Lone Caner places the series in DDL's premiumization push toward still-specific bottlings that had been the province of independents. Honest note: a connoisseur's and bartender's bottle — dry and pungent, not the sweet El Dorado of old. For a Mai Tai or Zombie that needs a backbone, or neat for the Port Mourant devotee, it's the funkiest thing DDL has ever bottled under its own name.

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