El Dorado 18 Year Special Reserve Bourbon & Cognac Finish

The 18 Year Bourbon & Cognac finish is the Special Reserve release Rum Ratings' drinkers score 8.5 — eighteen-year Demerara rum given a second maturation in French oak that held cognac. Demerara Distillers Limited makes it at the last distillery in Guyana, at Plantation Diamond on the Demerara River, where the country's heritage stills were consolidated: rum from the Enmore wooden Coffey still, the Port Mourant double wooden pot still, and the Versailles single wooden pot still, tropically aged eighteen years in ex-bourbon oak, then finished in ex-cognac casks before bottling at around 43% ABV in a limited release; check your label. Since 2020 DDL has reformulated its range with the added sugar removed. Where the sibling Oloroso finish leans into dried fruit and nut, the cognac cask softens and perfumes: expect a nose of dried apricot, honeyed grape, rancio, and fine French oak over the Demerara base's molasses, tobacco, and heavily toasted wood, opening into a silky, rounded palate where eighteen years of tropical aging meets the cognac cask's floral elegance, the Port Mourant funk mellowed into savory depth, finishing very long and refined. Honest note: a collector's Special Reserve, priced between the 15 and the 21, for drinkers who love the 15 and want the polished version. In a snifter, neat, slowly. Guyana's wooden stills, finished in Charente wood.

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