Savanna Art of Rum by Xandro Reunion Island Rhum Traditionnel (70cl, 57%)

Savanna Art of Rum by Xandro is a blend of four rums from the humid ageing cellar on La Réunion, bottled at 57% ABV in a numbered edition of 1,700 bottles. Two six-year-old rums from former Cognac casks are combined with a nine-year-old rum from a former Muscatel cask and a high-ester HERR distilled in 2006, which rested in tank before eight years in former Cognac and Port casks. The blend brings together distillates from the C20 column and the alambic. The nose shows ripe apricot and peach, tropical and candied fruit, sweetness, vanilla and wood, liquorice and anise, with a fresh note. The palate is soft and fruity, silky, with vanilla, spicy cedar and a subtle maritime-salty note, plus liquorice bitterness. The finish is long and balanced, combining HERR fruitiness with plant notes from the Muscatel cask, fine maritime impressions and wood.