Papa's Pilar Dark Rum 24 Solera Profile

Pilar was Hemingway's boat — the 38-foot fishing cruiser he chased marlin from off Cuba and Key West — and Bourbon & Banter says if this rum were bourbon it would cost over a hundred dollars. Papa's Pilar was launched in 2013 by the Hemingway Rum Company in Key West, with the writer's estate as partner and a share of profits going to conservation causes he'd have backed. Dark 24 is a solera blend of pot- and column-still rums up to 24 years old sourced from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, and Florida, aged solera-style in ex-bourbon barrels and port pipes, then finished in Spanish Oloroso sherry casks, bottled at 43% ABV with no sugar, color, or flavoring, in a canteen-shaped bottle modeled on Hemingway's own. Bourbon & Banter found it sherry-forward on the nose like a sherried whiskey, with the cane clearly present through taste and finish, very well blended, long and sweet, dark fruit at the end — sophisticated, nuanced, a home run under forty dollars, and killer in eggnog. Drinkhacker: cola and root beer, coffee, chocolate, and amaro — a much different experience from the typical dark rum. All At Sea: vanilla and honey, bourbon-like texture, a finish that satisfies. Honest note: 24 is a solera profile, not an age, and it leans sweet. For a sipping rum with a sherried-Scotch personality, a Rum Old Fashioned, or a cigar, it's Papa's dark.

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