Review #531; Rum #65: Black Tot 50th Anniversary

This blend comes to us from Black Tot, and was created for the 50th anniversary of the end of the British Navy Rum Ration. It is a blend of quite of number of rums, with varying ages and sources, which I will list below.

Guyana:

28% 12 Year old Demerara Distillers Savalle Column

27% 9 year old Demerara Distillers Savalle Column

6% 10 year old Demerara Distillers Port Mourant Wooden Pot

0.5 42 year old Uitvlugt Port Mourtant Wooden Pot Still

Barbados:

15% 11 year old Foursquare Pot / Column

Trinidad

11% 10 year old Trinidad Distillers Column

4% 23 Year old Caroni Column

Jamaica

8% 9 year Hampden Pot

World Blend: World blend of original Navy rums, blended in wooden vats from the early 1800s – 1970

.5% Solera Original Royal Navy Blend

Whew, with all that out of the way, let us see how they did with this blend.

ABV: 54.5%

Nose: Brown Sugar, Tobacco leaf, Black Pepper, Mango, dark chocolate, light motor oil.

Palate: Medium mouthfeel, fruits, mango, dark chocolate, tobacco leaf, mint, motor oil, vanilla.

Finish: Medium length finish, tobacco leaf, mint, dark chocolate, mango, guava, motor oil.

Rating: 7/10

This is a delicious and well-made blended rum. I would have expected it to be a bit more unbalanced but it just works. The fruit notes are very pleasant and tasty, the more savory notes of Motor Oil, dark chocolate, and some nutmeg round it out to make this a very well balanced experience. A bit more of those heavy rums like the Caroni may have thrown this unbalanced but this was constructed just right for me.

1 | Disgusting | So bad I poured it out.

2 | Poor | I wouldn’t consume by choice.

3 | Bad | Multiple flaws.

4 | Sub-par | Not bad, but better exists.

5 | Good | Good, just fine.

6 | Very Good | A cut above.

7 | Great | Well above average

8 | Excellent | Really quite exceptional.

9 | Incredible | An all time favorite

10 | Perfect | Perfect