El Dorado 8 Year Rum

El Dorado 8 is the range's dark horse — Inu A Kena's readers name it their second favorite after the 15, and one calls it the heavier, funkier sibling to pair with that bottle rather than the brighter 5 and 12. 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: the 8 is a blend of rums from the Enmore wooden Coffey still, the Port Mourant double wooden pot still — the oldest working still in the world — and the Savalle columns, distilled from molasses, tropically aged a minimum of eight years in ex-bourbon oak, and bottled at 40% ABV. Since 2020 DDL has reformulated the range with the added sugar removed or sharply reduced. Expect a deep amber pour with a nose of molasses, dried fruit, licorice, and the savory, slightly smoky funk the wooden stills give, opening into a fuller, drier palate than the 5 — brown sugar, cocoa, tobacco, and oak with a peppery warmth — finishing long. Honest note: The Lone Caner calls the 12 only a minor step up from this, which makes the 8 the value play for anyone who wants the wooden-still character without the 12's price; enthusiasts wish it were bottled higher. For a serious Demerara Old Fashioned, a Mai Tai, a Zombie base, or neat, it's the El Dorado for people who've done the math.

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