Old Monk Supreme Very Old Vatted XXX Rum

Supreme is Old Monk grown up — the drier, wood-driven top of a range that made its name on caramel. Old Monk was for years the best-selling dark rum in the world without a single advertisement: Mohan Meakin, the Ghaziabad brewery founded as Dyer's in 1855, launched it in 1954, and it became India's most beloved spirit by word of mouth alone. Supreme is the premium Very Old Vatted XXX, molasses rum blended in the vat and aged longer than the 7 in oak, bottled at 42.8% ABV in the brand's signature bottle shaped like a monk — a ceramic-look figure of the friar himself, cap and all. The Rum Howler, tasting the whole range together, found that as he moved up the ladder from the 7 to the 12 to the Supreme and Legend, each rum relied less on caramel and molasses and more on wood aging — and placed the Supreme among the drier expressions, with the same moderately thick sheen and fat legs the house projects across every bottle. Expect the Old Monk signature of vanilla, butterscotch, orange and banana peel, cinnamon, and clove, with more oak, more dryness, and less of the 7's molasses push. Honest note: it's still Old Monk — sweet-leaning, mysterious about its production, and beloved for reasons that have as much to do with nostalgia as with the glass — and the monk bottle is half the point. For an Old Monk and Coke with a better base, a hot toddy, a cigar, or the shelf, it's the friar in figurine form.

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