Worthy Park Special Cask Madeira Rum

Memphis Rum Club leans toward this one over its port-cask sibling — and a Rum Ratings taster comparing both named the Madeira the winner for its fruit and intensity. Worthy Park Estate in the St. Catherine hills of Jamaica has grown cane since 1670 and made rum since the 1740s; it stopped in 1962 amid a postwar glut and, after the Clarke family built a modern distillery in 2005, sold bulk rum to independents while its own stocks aged. The Special Cask Series is the estate's finishing program — traditional Jamaican pot-still rum given a secondary maturation in rare casks, non-chill filtered, no color — and the Madeira is number four in the run: 100% pot-still rum from estate molasses on the Forsyth double-retort still, distilled in 2010, aged eight years in ex-bourbon casks and then two years in ex-Madeira casks, all at the estate, blended and bottled in 2020 at 45% ABV. The Fat Rum Pirate reviewed it as a distinct step in the series. Rum Ratings' drinkers find honey, overripe banana, esters, and dried fruit, medicinal and herbal with raisin and fig on a long finish — and, one notes, zero sweetness. Expect the Worthy Park banana signature wrapped in Madeira's nutty, savory, dried-fruit oxidation. Honest note: the strong Jamaican funk under the wine finish isn't for every wine-cask fan — try before committing, one taster advises. For a serious Rum Old Fashioned or neat, it's Worthy Park through Portuguese wood.

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