Appleton Estate 20 Year Old 2002/2022 Hearts Collection (70cl, 63%)

A 20-year-old Jamaican rum from the 2002 distillation, bottled in 2022 as part of the Hearts Collection. It was made in a Forsyth pot still from a single marque and matured for twenty years in Jamaica. Joy Spence and Luca Gargano selected twenty casks for this edition, numbered 404082 to 404101. The worldwide outturn is 5,700 bottles at 63%, and the bottling comes in a gift box. The nose combines orange and oily citrus peels with exotic fruits, then spicy apple tart, caramelised apples, roasted apricots and peaches. The palate is intense and warming, with exotic fruits, spices, coppery and resinous impressions and oily citrus peels. The finish leaves an oily, clinging texture with soft tannins, guava and quince paste.