For example, they mention it's a top quality Carribean rum, great as a sipping rum and an amazing drop for rum lovers. However the distillation of Rum did not become as popular in Barbados until 1906 due to the Rum Duty Act! Some rums will be blended again and undergo the second maturation before being bottled usually at 40%. The 12-year-old rum has notes of tropical fruits, toffee, banana, vanilla and tobacco, with a long warming finish from being secondary aged in sherry casks.

Notably, a fraction of the blend was also lovingly nurtured within ex-Madeira casks, infusing a distinctive character into the composition.On paper the 14YO and 12YO have similar specs, as this one also contains rums that have been aged in American Bourbon casks and former Madeira barrels for 14 years, but that doesn’t mean this is just the 12YO amped up. Nose: On the nose you'll find deep aromas of exotic fruits and English toffee with a bright ginger note. It all started in 1906 when the Rum Duty Act changed the way the rum was sold and distributed across Barbados as the distilleries had to have a license and were required to sell rum only in bulk quantities of 45 or more litres at a time. It’s the most versatile range of rums from Barbados and not only – if you think about it Doorly’s is one of the most diverse brands in the rum world (limited editions not counting). This is a rum of boldness, where every sip reveals a tapestry of flavours that embody the essence of time and craftsmanship.

Notes of red wine and blackberries mingle alongside dark chocolate and some faint notes of marmalade. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. L. Seale’s built a distillery on the site of an old sugar factory, known nowadays as Foursquare Distillery and all those rums are now produced there rather than sourced from other distilleries. Here I will review almost the whole Doorly’s range available at the moment one by one, the only exception being the 40% ABV 3 Year Old.This is a party rum, you can equally use this in a fruity punch or for an Old Fashioned and it won’t fail you. A rich, spicy yet subtle rum with surprisingly mellow and complex flavours resulting from its maturation in old oloroso sherry casks. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Being wholly family owned means we are free to pursue a perfectionist agenda compared to most Caribbean rum distilleries which are beholden to the major spirit companies.

Aged for a minimum of 3 years in American oak before charcoal filtration to give the final 'white spirit'. To produce the unique character of Doorly’s XO, very old rums are selected by the master blender and matured for a second time in Spanish Oloroso sherry casks, producing a delicious fusion of complex flavours from the cask and the well-aged rums. While I’m sure it was a business decision as well, one of the reasons for incorporating all these labels under the R. NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.

Yes, it’s quite woody, but the Madeira cask rum really balances that out by giving it plenty of red and dried fruits notes. This is meant to be their main aged rum for mixing and cocktails, but sipping it wouldn’t be frowned upon either.