Raising Glasses Dhahabu Rum

Raising Glasses is an American independent bottler run by Lorri and John, a husband-and-wife team of longtime Scotch collectors who select their own casks and bottle them in 375ml under their own label, and Dhahabu is their US debut bottling from Matugga, the Scottish rum distillery founded by Paul and Jacine Rutasikwa. Matugga draws on the couple's Ugandan and Jamaican roots, making rum in Scotland with Caribbean and East African flavor traditions, and the name Dhahabu is Swahili for gold, because this is a custom overproof version of Matugga's Golden Rum made specifically for its first American release. The rum is distilled from molasses on a pot still with dunder, the leftover stillage from previous runs that Jamaican distillers use to build esters, then aged in an ex-bourbon cask and bottled in 2025 at cask strength, 58.8% ABV, with no sugar, coloring or other additives, in a run of 257 bottles. Raising Glasses describes it as tropical fruit and steely esters over a gently oaky backbone, a profile that owes more to Jamaica than to the Highlands, and the overproof strength holds up in a daiquiri as well as it sips with water. 375ml bottle.

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