Hamilton Puesto White Rum

Puesto White is a San Diego rum — blended by Ed Hamilton for Puesto, the taco-and-tequila restaurant group that started in La Jolla and now runs across Southern California, for the rum drinks on its menu. Hamilton is the Ministry of Rum: the sailor, author, and importer who spent decades documenting Caribbean distilleries and then began bottling their rums unsweetened and honestly labeled. Puesto White is his white-rum blend built to the restaurant's specifications — a marriage of unaged and lightly aged Caribbean rums, likely drawing on the Jamaican pot-still and Guyanese column stocks that make up his White 'Stache, bottled at around 45% ABV with no sugar or additives; check your label. Where mass-market whites are stripped to neutral, Hamilton's whites keep character: expect a nose of fresh cane, coconut, and a touch of tropical fruit with a whisper of Jamaican funk, opening into a clean, bright, dry palate with real texture and a peppery lift, finishing crisp. Honest note: it's a house blend for a restaurant, so it's built for the Mojito, the Daiquiri, and the rum Paloma rather than the snifter — and as a mixing white it's a serious step above the bar-well standards. For a Daiquiri, a Mojito, a Piña Colada, or a rum and soda with a lime, it's the white rum a San Diego restaurant group trusted a rum historian to build. Local, honest, and made to mix.

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