Ron Zacapa 23 Sistema Solera Rum (75cl, 40%)

A Guatemalan rum bottled at 40% ABV in a 750 ml bottle, made from virgin sugar cane honey and aged under the Sistema Solera. It blends rums aged between 6 and 23 years; the "23" refers to the oldest component in the blend, not the age of the bottle. Ageing takes place at 2,300 metres in the Quetzaltenango highlands. The rum is aged in selected barrels that previously held American whiskey, sherries and Pedro Ximenez wines. Per the brand's published notes, the nose opens with caramel, vanilla, cacao and butterscotch, with sherried caramelised Brazil nuts, toasted hazelnut, toffee and dried pineapple. The palate is complex and full-bodied, with dried fruit and apricot building to savoury oak, nutmeg, leather, tobacco, coffee and vanilla, and the finish is honeyed butterscotch with spiced oak and dried fruit.