J. Wray & Nephew Appleton 12 Year Old Blended Jamaican Rum (75cl, 43%)

A 12 year old blended Jamaican rum from Appleton Estate, bottled at 43% ABV in a 75cl bottle. The Appleton Estate is the oldest sugar plantation and distillery in Jamaica, with sugar fields covering 11,000 acres of the Nassau Valley in the Saint Elizabeth parish, and has been in operation since 1749. The distillery was bought by J. Wray & Nephew in 1916, which became a subsidiary of Gruppo Campari in 2012. It operates five double-retort pot stills alongside a column still, and generally produces single blended rums by vatting the two distillates. In 1997, Appleton Estate became the first distillery in the spirits industry to employ a female master blender, Joy Spence.