Black Tot | Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve 2024

54.5% ABV

{{product.OptionSizeLabel}}:

Please select the size

Sold out

£{{selectedProduct.DisplayPrice}}

{{info}}

This item is already in your shopping basket.

This year our Master Blender, Oliver Chilton, has included a higher percentage of Barbadian rums to accentuate the rich tropical fruits in the blend. As always, he has looked to put his own spin on the blend, this year including a 1997 rum from Trinidad’s lost distillery Caroni.

Re-imagining the lost art of naval perpetual blending; he began with rum drawn from Master Blender’s Reserve from last year. Casks were then selected from Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica. These four unique country blends were then married together with our perpetual reserve, layered and perfectly balanced, to bring you Master Blender’s Reserve 2024. As always, flagons of original Royal Navy Rum are added to the blend to keep the liquid history alive.

Tasting Notes

Nose

Grilled buttered pineapple with lime, chilli and coconut. White chocolate builds with mint and strawberry ice cream.
Palate

Buttery and thick with manuka honey, toasted vanilla sticks and dried mango. Sweet spices balance against sweet citrus. Hints of dark sugar and baked banana build with sweet melon and guava.
Finish

Light notes of liquorice balances tropical sweetness. Dried mango with a touch of bitter chocolate and kaffir lime leaves.

BLEND BREAKDOWN

Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve is inspired by the philosophy of Royal Navy rum blending. As with all our releases, we provide full transparency on what we put in the bottle.

Country of Origin	Distillery	Status	Still	Tropical Ageing	Continental Ageing	Blend %
BARBADOS 60%	FOURSQUARE	OPERATING	POT/COLUMN	5 YEARS	3 YEARS	20.59%
	FOURSQUARE	OPERATING	POT/COLUMN	5 YEARS	8 YEARS	6.84%
	FOURSQUARE	OPERATING	POT/COLUMN	8 YEARS	9 YEARS	6.43%
	WEST INDIES	OPERATING	POT	0 YEARS	7 YEARS	12.96%
	WEST INDIES	OPERATING	COLUMN	0 YEARS	14 YEARS	6.98%
	MOUNT GAY	OPERATING	POT	5 YEARS	17 YEARS	6.20%
TRINIDAD 25%	TRINIDAD DISTILLERS	OPERATING	COLUMN	8 YEARS	4 YEARS	9.53%
	TRINIDAD DISTILLERS	OPERATING	COLUMN	11 YEARS	4 YEARS	5.37%
	TRINIDAD DISTILLERS	OPERATING	COLUMN	16 YEARS	7 YEARS	4.76%
	CARONI	LOST	COLUMN	13 YEARS	13 YEARS	5.34%
JAMAICA 5%	NEW YARMOUTH	OPERATING	COLUMN	24 YEARS	4.5 YEARS	0.86%
	CLARENDON ESTATE	OPERATING	POT	23 YEARS	5.5 YEARS	0.86%
	LONG POND	OPERATING	POT	0 YEARS	24.5 YEARS	0.57%
	CLARENDON ESTATE	OPERATING	POT	22 YEARS	3.5 YEARS	0.86%
	CLARENDON ESTATE	OPERATING	POT	0 YEARS	25.5 YEARS	0.50%
	VARIOUS	N/A	POT/COLUMN	0 YEARS	23.5 YEARS	1.35%
GUYANA 5%	DIAMOND	OPERATING	COLUMN	2 YEARS	19 YEARS	1.90%
GUYANA 5%	DIAMOND	OPERATING	POT/COLUMN	5 YEARS	3 YEARS	3.10%
PERPETUAL BLEND 5%	MASTER BLENDERS RESERVE 2023	N/A	POT/COLUMN	N/A	N/A	3.94%
PERPETUAL BLEND 5%	ORIGINAL ROYAL NAVY FLAGONS	N/A	POT/COLUMN	N/A	N/A	1.06%

Overview

BARBADOS - 60%

TRINIDAD - 25%

JAMAICA - 5%

GUYANA - 5%

PERPETUAL BLEND - 5%

download full breakdown

Countries

The 2024 release, like its predecessors, displays a wonderful range of origins - from Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana. We also add our 'perpetual blend' element of last year's 2023 release and some original British Royal Navy rum.

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.
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). It 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.
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.
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.
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 2023 release has a proportion of a ‘perpetual reserve’ comprising our 2022 release and some original British Royal Navy rum.

Technical Specifications

Raw Material

Molasses
Distillery

Multiple
Distillation

Barbados Pot, Column, Pot/Column, Trinidad Column, Jamaica Pot, Column, Pot/Column and Guyana Column, Pot/Column
Cask Type

American & European Oak
Maturation

Tropical & Continental
Chill Filtered

No
Blend Composition

A blend of rums from Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and a Perpetual Reserve blend
NO SUGAR ADDED

0g/L added
Bottled

Scotland