Deadhead Rum Dark Chocolate (70cl, 35%)

A flavoured rum from Mexico, made by Rones de México in Tapachula, Chiapas. The base rum is aged for five years before being infused with locally harvested cocoa. It is produced in a family-run distillery and bottled at 35% in a 70cl bottle without a gift box. The rum is made from both fresh sugar cane juice and molasses, distilled separately in a pot still and a column still, then blended. Ageing uses American oak and oak from Chiapas, with Master Blender Jorge Perez combining the matured rums. On the nose there are chocolate and cocoa notes with coffee, a creamy, almost milky scent, plus vanilla and caramel. The palate is soft and rounded, with chocolate, coffee, caramel, cherry and cream soda notes. The finish recalls a mocaccino.