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$224.99
The 2024 edition of the Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve is Barbados (60%) heavy, with a high proportion of rums from Trinidad (25%) too. The full blend can be found below! 54.5%
Producer Description
"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."
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Grilled buttered pineapple with lime, chili 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.
87pts Whisky Fun
"A very British blend, featuring Jamaican, Barbadian, Guyanese, and… Caroni! The 2023 edition was rather glorious, the 2022 as well, and the 2021 was quite delightful. Colour: gold. Nose: it opens with cane juice, almost like an agricole, before moving towards the oily and tarry notes typical of these islands, though softened and more restrained than in your usual Jamaican or Trinidadian examples (though those are never really ‘usual,’ are they). Barbados seems to add the sweetness and kindness (with bananas and pineapples). However, I’m unsure which country contributes those lovely roasted peanut notes. With water: little change, perhaps a drop of lapsang souchong tea. Mouth (neat): balances often shift on the palate, and that’s the case here, as liquorice, tar, and even salt take the lead this time. More demerara sugar, roasted bananas, and stranger honeys emerge. With water: it rounds out, while more stewed citrus fruits appear. Finish: of medium length, somewhat even softer. Cane juice returns in the aftertaste, joined by orange juice. Comments: very well-balanced, which seems perfectly suited to a rum for sailors, doesn’t it.
SGP:652 - 87 points."
$109.99
This is a fun new rum from Black Tot, matured in a Solera System made from 70 year old Oloroso and PX Sherry casks (more details below). It is created from rums from Guyana, Barbados and Jamaica, aged tropically for at least 5 years, and at least 5 more in Europe. 46.2% 88pts Whisky Fun
Producer Description
"Black Tot Historic Solera is a decadent and elegant rum which has been aged in oak barrels that have been seasoned with Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso Sherries, before being further aged through a traditional 3-tier Solera process. Solera’s magic lies in blending rums of various ages. The younger rum interacts with the concentrated essence of older expressions, acquiring richer characteristics with each step. This continuous marriage between these various ageing rums results in a rum showcasing remarkable depth and character."
$79.99
Black Tot's Finest Caribbean Rum is bottled at 46.2% with no added sugar and unchill-filtered. It is a blend of rums from Barbados (35%), Jamaica (5%), and Guyana (60%). Most of the stock used is between 3 and 5 years old, but 20% is white rum from Demerara Distillers in Guyana.
From The Producer
"Black Tot Finest Caribbean is inspired by tradition and the motivation to blend delicious rums from around the world. Our Head Blender, Oliver Chilton, has developed a recipe featuring some of the world’s finest rums while creating a new and individual style. With nothing added or taken away, our final blend has been selected for its ability to allow the individual flavours of each rum to shine."
$178.99
From The Producer
"Black Tot Day 2022 marks the third iteration of our annual Master Blender’s Reserve, an ever-evolving perpetual blend crafted by our Master Blender, Oliver Chilton.
For this year’s blend, we drew inspiration from historical rums in our collection and the unique flavour profiles they exhibited over half a century ago. These rums, since lost in the rum world, were rich with notes of baked banana, dusty chocolate, mocha milkshakes, honey, tobacco, leather, liquorice, and spice. These flavours were mapped out and became our guide."
