Planteray Mister Fogg Navy Rum Sail No. 2 (70cl, 55.7%)

Mister Fogg Sail No. 2 is a cask-strength navy rum from Planteray, bottled at 55.7% in a 70cl bottle. It blends rums from five distilleries: Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, Mauritius and Jamaica, mixing molasses and cane juice rums from pot and column stills. Each component ages first in ex-bourbon barrels in its home country, then crosses the Atlantic. In southwest France the blend spends many months circulating between two large open-air wooden vats, an echo of the London docks where navy rum was finished. The nose is molasses, vanilla, blueberry pie and cherrywood, with cinnamon bun and toasted coconut. Caramelised banana, Demerara sugar and baking spice carry the palate, and the finish is long and warming, with vanilla pod and chocolate.