Takamaka Zepis Kreol Spiced Rum (70cl, 43%)

Takamaka Zepis Kreol is a spiced rum from the St André Series, combining molasses rums from pot and column stills with eight-year-old Foursquare rum from Barbados. Seychellois spices include cinnamon bark, cloves, nutmeg and pimento leaves, with oak character kept more prominent than vanilla sweetness. The spices steep for 15 hours, then fine oak particles from former Merlot casks and the Foursquare rum are added. After seven days the solids are filtered out, followed by six hours of hydrodynamic cavitation, then about 60 days in very old ex-Bourbon barrels. It is bottled at 43% with 14 g of sugar per litre, no colouring or artificial aromas, and not chill-filtered.