Bucktrout's 40 Year Old Fine Jamaican Liberation Rum (75cl, 54%)

A Jamaican rum bottled by Bucktrout & Co of Guernsey in 1985 to mark the 40th anniversary of Liberation Day on 9 May, when the island was freed from German occupation. The label carries a 'V' for Victory. The rum was distilled before 1945 and shipped to Guernsey in 1947 in a large oak cask. It stayed in that cask until bottling, giving more than 40 years of maturation. The cask yielded 550 bottles of 75cl at 54% (95° proof), and this one is bottle number 411. It comes with its original certificate of origin from Bucktrout's.