Barbados rum producer Mount Homosexual has launched The PX Sherry Cask Expression, the sixth restricted version within the Grasp Blender Assortment collection.
The limited-edition collection debuted in 2018 with the discharge of XO: The Peat Smoke Expression, created by former Grasp Blender Allen Smith. In 2019, when Grasp Blender Trudiann Branker took over, she launched the expressions Pot Nonetheless Rum, The Port Cask Expression, Andean Oak Cask and The Madeira Cask Expression.
For this yr’s launch, Branker appeared to Southern Spain the place Pedro Ximenez Sherry is produced from grapes dried within the solar after which aged to make the fortified wine.
This expression was crafted with pot and column nonetheless rums which have been aged in ex-American whiskey casks for at least 20 years within the tropical local weather of Barbados. The rums have been then completed for a further yr in Pedro Ximenez Sherry wine casks.
Trudiann labored with the Mount Homosexual R&D staff to discover a few of the corporate’s oldest rums, looking for these appropriate to ending in PX Sherry wine casks.
The result’s a nostril of maraschino cherry, stewed fruits, charred oak and butterscotch, the corporate studies. The palate brings pink fruits, salted caramel, banana, toasted vanilla and velvety oak.
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“I used to be impressed by the method behind PX Sherry, and I needed to find how a properly matured rum would work together with the richness of the casks used to age these fortified wines,” says Branker. “Going by a few of our oldest rums to seek out the correct ones was an unbelievable journey, tasting rums which have been positioned in our bonds twenty years in the past. I used to be thrilled to seek out 20-year-old rums that stood up when it comes to physique and character to learn from being completed in PX Sherry casks, and I’m honored so as to add this to our Grasp Blender Assortment.”
The Grasp Blender Assortment: The PX Sherry Cask Expression comes bottled at 45% ABV and is non-chill filtered. This expression is restricted to 4,200 bottles, and can be out there at retailers for a recommended retail worth of $270 per 700-ml. bottle.
