Mhoba Satara 4 Year Old Bourbon Cask #WDR2 Collection Itinéraires (70cl, 64.6%)

Mhoba Satara is a South African aged rum from Mhoba, distilled from fresh sugar cane juice in a pot still and bottled at cask strength. It matured for 50 months, four years and two months, in a former Woodford Reserve bourbon cask, WRD2. The limited edition comprises 282 numbered bottles. The rum is neither coloured nor chill filtered and is supplied in a wooden box. On the nose there are petrol and tiger balm, clove, black pepper, cane sugar, cane syrup and candied pineapple, with walnut and almond bringing a milky note. The palate is lively, full and tense, with heat, a medicinal mustard-plaster note, liquorice and juicy cane juice, followed by warm cane sugar, fibrous cane and vanilla. The finish is silky and gentle, with chocolate and clear cane sugar, then candied lemon and orange, and light camphor, balsamic thuja and cypress, medicinal, herbal and intense geranium notes.