Barbados is known as the rum island of the Caribbean. The oldest rum in the world comes from Barbados. It is therefore not called the island's best invention for nothing.
Rum has been produced in Barbados for more than 350 years. It was not until 1703, when Mount Gay Rum began producing the oldest rum we know today, that Barbados was considered the birthplace of rum. Sipping Rum is a fine Barbados
rum with a few Dutch tones
All the ingredients expected of a special rum are combined in this Sipping Barbados dark rum - ripe fruit notes, coconut, vanilla, caramel, tobacco and soft spicy notes. A Caribbean pleasure - pure, in the blend or as part of a cocktail.
Colour: red- golden-sunny
Nose: lush, ripe fruity aromas, soft spicy notes of leather and moist tobacco leaves, lots of vanilla and some coconut, subtle caramel sweetness
Taste: vanilla and roasted coconut meat, caramel and dried fruit, sweet as a love apple, some tobacco and soft leather
Aftertaste: very soft on the palate, gets a little drier later.