Appleton Estate 21 yo

Volume: 0.7 litres | Alcohol content: 43% | Chill filtration: Yes | Colouring: Yes

Special Features:

For Nassau Valley Casks, Appleton Estate blends Jamaican pot-still and column-still rums whose youngest component has matured for at least 21 years in tropical conditions. Joy Spence selects the aged rums for this blend. Jamaican water naturally filtered through limestone is used in its production, and no flavourings are added.

This long-aged blend brings together citrus notes, vanilla, nuts and spicy wood. A restrained sweetness remains in its dry finish. The rum is bottled at 43% alcohol in a bottle containing 0.7 litres and comes in a premium box.

Tasting Notes:

• Nose: On the nose, floral aromas develop into a mature, nutty bouquet. Pronounced vanilla is joined by hints of orange peel, nutmeg, warm coffee and cocoa.
• Palate: The rum is powerful on the palate, with delicate citrus, spice and wood notes. Orange peel and vanilla combine with nutmeg, coffee and cocoa.
• Finish: The finish is long and dry, with a subtle brown-sugar sweetness.

Distillery/Bottler:

Appleton Estate lies in Jamaica's Nassau Valley, where rum production has been documented since 1749. The distillery works with sugarcane molasses and uses its own cultivated yeast and water from the estate's natural spring for fermentation. It combines spirits distilled in traditional copper pot stills with those from column stills. The pot-still spirits contribute to the rums' characteristic orange-peel note.

Appleton Estate uses American white oak Bourbon Barrels for maturation. Master Blender Joy Spence and her team select the individual casks for the blends. Spence joined the company as Chief Chemist in 1981 and became Master Blender in 1997, the first woman to hold this position in the spirits industry. The connection with J. Wray & Nephew Ltd. dates back to 1916, when Cecil Lindo and his brothers acquired both companies. In 1970, J. Wray & Nephew Ltd. began a five-year expansion programme to modernise the distillery and its bottling and blending facilities.

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