Tasting Notes
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Nose
Melted chocolate nibs and toasted hazelnuts are offset against warm orange and cinnamon sticks with a background of mixed tropical juice and cassis. Blackcurrant and raspberry leaf start to come to the fore with time in the glass.
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Palate
Initial flavours of milk chocolate and raisins are complimented with café latte and ripe banana. A touch of aniseed balances against a light hint of tropical fruit and a wonderful rich baked Demerara sugar top to a crème caramel.
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Finish
Cinnamon and nutmeg spice along with chilli and cocoa linger for an age.
BLEND BREAKDOWN
Countries
Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve is inspired by the philosophy or Royal Navy rum blending. The 2022 release, like its 2021 predecessor, displays a wonderful range of origins - from Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados and our 'perpetual blend' element of last year's 2021 release (finished in Sherry casks) and some original British Royal Navy rum.
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Guyana
Guyana historically has been one of the world’s leading producers of molasses and rum, and it was undoubtedly the heart of the Navy Rum blend. Despite the consolidation of its many distilleries, Guyana’s historic stills have survived and continue to make a variety of rich and flavourful rum marques at Demerara Distillers.
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Barbados
The birthplace of molasses rum in the Caribbean. Barbados is famous for elegant and balanced blends of pot & column still rum, with notes of tropical fruits, vanilla, and coconut.
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Jamaica
Classically a heavier style pot-still rum, Jamaican distilleries like Hampden utilise longer fermentation times, as well as wild yeast strains, and the addition of dunder and muck pits in their molasses ferment to create distinctively big, funky flavours.
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Trinidad
Trinidad’s most famous rums have all developed out of distilleries founded in the 1900s, most notably Caroni and Trinidad Distillers. The former made a heavier style column still rum (no longer in operation), and was a core component of the original Navy Rum blend - while the latter is a lighter, cleaner style, and is responsible for continuing the heritage of Trinidad rum today.
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Perpetual Blend
Each year, we keep aside a proportion of our previous year’s limited edition Master Blender’s Reserve blend to use as a base for our next year’s Master Blender’s Reserve. As such, the 2022 release has a proportion of a ‘perpetual reserve’ comprising our 2021 release (finished in Sherry casks) and some original British Royal Navy rum.
Technical Specifications
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Raw Material
Molasses
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Distillery
Multiple
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Distillation
Guyana column and pot/column, Jamaica column, pot and pot/column, Trinidad column, Barbados pot/column, World pot/column
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Cask Type
Multiple - including perpetual reserve sherry cask finish
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Maturation
Tropical & Continental
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Chill Filtered
No
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Blend Composition
A blend of rums from Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and a Perpetual Reserve blend
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NO SUGAR ADDED
0g/L added
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Bottled
Scotland
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BOTTIGLIAVETRO COLORATORaccolta Differenziata
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CAPSULACAPSULE DE STAGNORaccolta Differenziata
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TAPPOCOMPOSITORaccolta Indifferenziata
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SCATOLACARTARaccolta Differenziata