Whiskey makers are within the midst of a love affair with rum barrels for ending functions — so why shouldn’t the reverse be true, additionally?
The second a part of an annual launch of 5 rums within the Reserva Ocho line, that is the follow-up to final 12 months’s Reserva Ocho Sherry Cask End (which we didn’t evaluation). With Reserva Ocho Rye Cask End, Bacardi takes an 8- (to 12-) 12 months outdated rum, initially aged in bourbon barrels, and finishes it in rye casks (supply unspoken) for 2 months.
The outcomes are surprisingly good. The nostril combines candy molasses and traditional, heavy fruit notes with a distinctly grassy, spicy character pushed by the rye. The proportions of every are initially about equal, although finally the fruitiness wins out, permitting notes of bananas and apples to linger within the glass.
The palate is straight away drier, however fairly partaking, with the rye spice hitting the tongue first. Once more the rum strikes slowly again towards a conventional, molasses-driven character, with mild notes of caramel and chocolate lingering late into the expertise. The marginally overproof rum warms on the end, in the end discovering a pleasant stability of fruit and wooden, albeit with a mildly medicinal overtone that stands as the one smooth spot in one in every of Bacardi’s best releases in years.
90 proof.
A- / $33 / bacardi.com [BUY IT NOW FROM TOTAL WINE]
Bacardi Reserva Ocho Rum Rye Cask End
$33
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