Old Monk 7 Years Old Blended Very Old Vatted XXX Rum

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 December 1954 under Ved Rattan Mohan, and it became India's most beloved spirit purely by word of mouth: the rum of the Indian Army, of college hostels, of monsoon evenings, sold in the squat, dimpled bottle with the beaming friar on the label. The 7 Year Old XXX is the original: molasses rum, vatted — blended in the vat before bottling — aged seven years in oak, and bottled at 42.8% ABV with the distinct vanilla and caramel character that made it famous. The Rum Howler, working through the whole range, found the 7 the most caramel-and-molasses-driven, with cinnamon and clove spice, orange and banana peel, vanilla, and butterscotch; The Fat Rum Pirate calls it the grandaddy of the line that most people have tried. The Lone Caner is honest that reviewers cast a jaundiced eye at its sweetness and suspect additives even with clean hydrometer tests — raw honeycomb, peaches in syrup, cardamom, sandalwood — and Bevvy's comment section is a decade-long war between devotees and detractors. What it is: a sweet, vanilla-forward, cheap, and enormously nostalgic dark rum, the taste of India in a glass, best with cola, in a hot toddy, or as the Old Monk and Coke that fueled a subcontinent. Since 1954, no ads.

Buy Old Monk 7 Years Old Blended Very Old Vatted XXX Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.