J. Wray & Nephew Appleton Estate 21 Year Old Blended Jamaican Rum (70cl, 43%)

This is a 21 year old blended Jamaican rum from Appleton Estate, distilled between 1975 and 1984 and bottled between 1996 and 2005. It joined the core range in 1996 and was bottled in annual batches, in the earliest packaging style of the expression. Appleton Estate is the oldest sugar plantation and distillery in Jamaica, working since 1749 across 11,000 acres of the Nassau Valley in Saint Elizabeth parish. J. Wray & Nephew bought it in 1916. Five double-retort pot stills sit alongside a column still, and the blends are usually made by vatting the two distillates.