Mhoba Umbila Bourbon Cask New Vibrations (70cl, 59.7%)
US$219.00
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- Distillery
- Mhoba
- Type
- Aged rum
- Bottle Size
- 70cl
- ABV
- 59.7%
- Cask Type
- first-fill Woodford Reserve bourbon cask
A 2019 pot still rum made from sugar cane juice, from Mhoba in South Africa. It matured for 42 months in a first-fill Woodford Reserve bourbon cask, number WR 5, selected by La Maison du Whisky, in the hot South African climate. The edition produced 251 numbered bottles at 59.7%. Umbila means maize in Siswati and refers to the bourbon cask's influence and its previous maize-based contents, not the rum's raw material. It comes in a 70cl bottle in a wooden box with engraved maize motifs.
Tasting Notes
Opens broad and deep with salted butter caramel, then rubber, iris, tuberose and chilli, with oxidative sugar cane juice and raw sugar notes developing with air.
Clear and lively with pear, apple, lemon, vanilla and a camomile-like tone, then pineapple, banana and coconut with pronounced minerality suggesting slate and manganese.
Long and full, combining lightly burnt raw sugar, cinnamon, roasted walnuts and dates with iris and lilies; powdery, with chocolate and roasted chicory.
