La Compagnie des Indes West Indies 8 Year Old (70cl, 40%)

This is an eight-year-old rum from La Compagnie des Indes, a blend of rums in the Spanish tradition and the English tradition. The rums come from Barbados, Guyana, the Dominican Republic and Panama, and it is bottled at 40% in a 70cl bottle. The nose is delicate and perfumed, with macerated fruit, barley sugar, honey, peach and gentle spice. The palate opens frankly on honey and spice, then moves to barley sugar and smoky molasses, with vanilla pod, rhubarb and liquorice in the middle. It finishes with fruity eaux-de-vie and woody notes.