Worthy Park 2006 Single Estate Rum (56% abv)

Worthy Park Single Estate 2006 Aged 12 Years is wonderful dark/golden brown with a bright orange hue. It is inviting and Cask Strength the nose is immediately drawing me in.

The familiar notes of banana and breakfast tea but in a welcome appearance. The rum also has quite a blast of mint and pine cones. It reminds me very much of St Lucia Distillers rums. Which is no bad thing.

Milky chocolate and some baking spices mingle alongside a slightly bourbon like char. Chocolate raisins and banana bread. This is a very rich,warming and highly complex nose. Wonderful.

Sipped, even at Cask Strength it exhibits a nice amount of heat on the palate but it doesn’t get too much. Spicy ginger, cinnamon and vanilla hit the palate before fading slightly to allow an oaky char to move you along into the mid palate.

Which just has so much going on. Bruised banana, toffee, touch of menthol and some pineapple. Big milky cups of tea and dried fruits a touch of Christmas Cake. So much going on and it all builds with each sip.

Finish wise it’s long and slow. It stays long in the mouth and is wonderful amalgamation of all the rich warming flavours that have went before. It’s so comforting and so well balanced throughout.