A brand new rum has hit the cabinets in Florida, California, and New York (accessible nationally on-line), and it has a reasonably highly effective backstory. To wit:
Led by Janet Diaz-Bonilla, the primary Cuban-American immigrant girl to discovered and personal a rum model, La Marielita is a proud collaboration of Janet Diaz-Bonilla and fellow Cuban rooted masterminds Francisco José “Don Pancho” Fernández Pérez, also called the Godfather of Rum and artist Humberto Benitez. La Marielita Rum is impressed by the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, an exodus initiated by a political motion the place hundreds of Cubans sought refuge on the Peruvian embassy. At six-years-old, Janet Diaz-Bonilla, alongside her dad and mom, launched into a journey from Mariel, Cuba to Key West, Florida, solely to be transferred upon arrival to a holding camp for 53 days earlier than being awarded their freedom. Janet launched into this journey to craft La Marielta Rum to honor and have fun laborious work, dedication to household, and gratitude for freedom.
The rum itself was distilled in Las Cabras de Pese, Panama (presumably on the Las Cabras Distillery) and aged for no less than 18 years in ex-bourbon casks earlier than being bottled with out components or synthetic flavorings. Let’s test it out.
The aroma is easy however wealthy with notes of darkish, torched sugar, gentle oak, and cocoa. On the palate, it is a comfortably basic rum, medium-bodied and providing a well-restrained sweetness. Notes of caramelized sugar aren’t outsized or cloying however are inclined to dominate throughout the sip. A little bit of cocoa powder and dried coconut ultimately evolve on the mid palate however they’re short-lived because the end arrives abruptly with notes of sunshine brown sugar, vanilla bean, and delicate, lingering oak tannins. What it lacks in complexity, it at the least makes up for with spectacular approachability. A stable mixer, however, surprisingly given the age, a considerably forgettable sipper.
80 proof.
B / $60 / lamarielita.com
La Marielita Rum 18 Years Outdated
$60
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