Renegade Rum Etudes Old Bacolet (70cl, 55%)

A single farm origin rum from Renegade, made from fresh sugar cane juice from the Lodger variety grown in Theo's Field in the Silk Cotton Tree terroir on Grenada's south coast. It is distilled in a column still. The rum matures in the Caribbean in French and American oak, comprising 50% new American oak, 35% premium French oak and 15% first-fill American oak. It is bottled at 55% in a 70cl bottle, without colouring, added sugar or chill filtration, in a gift box. The outturn is 1,200 bottles. The nose brings crayons and pencil shavings, honey-stewed vegetables and toasted sesame oil, the palate pink grapefruit and blood orange with salt, and the finish is medium in length with metallic notes, fruit peel, mild oak spice and pink grapefruit.