Elements Eight Barrel Infused Criollo Cacao Rum

Produzido por: Saint Lucia

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Launched in 2013, as the name suggests this rum is barrel infused with St. Lucian Criollo cacao beans at the distillery in St. Lucia. The rum itself is a blend of pot and column distilled molasses rums aged 3 to 6 years in ex-bourbon barrels. The beans are infused is the blend of rums for 3-4 weeks.

Elements Eight rums are the creation of Carl Stephenson and Andreas Redlefsen, both long veterans of the spirits industry, particularly rums. As the name suggests their rums are marketed around the concept of eight elements: 1) environment (where the cane is grown), 2) sugar cane, 3) water, 4) yeast, 5) distillation, 6) tropical ageing, 7) blending and 8) filtration.

Avaliação e degustação

Experimentado em 04/05/2013

Aparência:

Clear, golden.

Aroma:

Dark chocolate and freshly ground coffee beans with freshly scorched oak and light vanilla.

Sabor:

Dry, bitter chocolate and coffee beans with dry lightly spiced oak, vanilla and a wisp of smoke.

Aftertaste:

Long, dry cacao finish with faint cinnamon spice.