Clarendon 37 Year Old 1984 Thompson Bros Thompson X Auld A

Clarendon Jamaican Rum, 1984, Aged 37 Years, Auld Alliance Collaboration, 70CL, 62%

Distilled on the 12th of June 1984 this Pot Distilled Rum from the Clarendon Estate has been matured in Jamaica for 34 Years before being disgorged / re-racked into the same casks and shipped to the UK where it further matured for another 3 years before being bottled in Dornoch in July 2021

Nose: Dried spice and peach, pear drops, liquorice, Ceylon cinnamon, beeswax, old oak furniture, ancient dunnage, cognac, raisin sauce, mature game, nutmeg, ‘caramac bar’, muscovado.

Palate: Initially dry but packed with heavy muscovado, cacao nibs, hessian, dunnage funk, shiitake mushrooms, raisins, a blunderbuss of waxy oak.

Finish: Long and dry, lots of oak, autumn leaves, mushroom, cacao nibs, 80% Cocoa chocolate, gentian root and dry ginger.