El Dorado’s Rare Collection showcases some of the finest Guyanese rums ever to be made, and this is another example. A 1999 vintage, this Demerara rum was distilled in Diamond Distillery’s famous Port Mourant Wooden Double Pot Still.

After distillation, it has been aged for 16 years in former Bourbon barrels and unlike many El Dorado rums, has been bottled without any additional sweetening.

The rum offers notes of intense plums and raisins, leather, polished oak, orange peel, star anise, tobacco leaf, burnt sugar, charred wood, salted caramel, drying liquorice, some vegetal earthiness, baked apples, a little red wine tannins, maple syrup and overripe bananas.

Complex, muscular and powerful, this rum has been bottled at 61.4% ABV.

• Product type
  Dark
• Distillery / brand
  El Dorado
• Country
  Guyana
• Bottler
  Distillery Bottling
• Distillation date
  1999
• Bottling date
  2015
• Non-chillfiltered
  Yes
• Natural colour
  Yes
• SKU
  053233