Myers's Platinum White Jamaican Rum

Platinum is Myers's with the color taken out — the original Jamaican rum house's white, built for the Daiquiri and the Mojito. Myers's is the original Jamaican dark rum, made since 1879 when Frederick Louis Myers created it in Kingston, and still produced primarily at Clarendon Distillery in Jamaica; Sazerac bought the brand in 2018. Platinum White is made the same way as the Dark: Jamaican sugarcane cooked into molasses, fermented, distilled on both continuous column and pot stills, aged in white oak barrels, blended, and then filtered to remove the color and smooth the taste, bottled at 40% ABV. Because it's aged and filtered rather than young and neutral, and because the pot-still component is real Jamaican, it has more going on than a standard bar-well white: expect a nose of light cane, vanilla, and a faint tropical banana hint of the island's hogo, opening into a clean, smooth, medium-light palate with a touch of oak roundness and a subtle funk, finishing crisp. Honest note: this is a mixing white built for the bar, not a Hampden or Worthy Park pot-still white — drinkers who want serious Jamaican funk in a Daiquiri should look at those; drinkers who want a clean, easy white with a whisper of Jamaica will find it here. For a Daiquiri, a Mojito, a Piña Colada, a Cuba Libre, or a Planter's Punch that needs a lighter half, it's Myers's, filtered clear. Jamaica's original house, in white.

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