Nose: Demerara sugar, maple syrup, vanilla, honey, oak cask, grilled pineapple, mango, peach, coconut, crushed sugar cane. It’s a sweet nose but not overpowering. Palate: Sweet, fruity, grassy and herbal on the arrival. It’s very agricole-like to start with but in the mid-palate it takes a dive towards molasses sweetness with tropical fruits, crème caramel, a little spice and vanilla appearing. It's an interesting and well managed mélange. Finish: Short. Sweet, a little white pepper and hot spices but fading quickly into white sugar. This is a pleasant and very laid-back, sensuous rum with a combination character that teams agricole hogo and crisp cane sugars with luscious tropical fruits and dark syrup. Altogether it makes for a profile that I’d call “languid”. It’s luxurious like a hyper-dosaged Venezualian rum but without the cloying intensity, and the edge of its clean agricole facet gives it interest. I’m enjoying this in many ways – neat, over ice with a slice of orange or lime, in pina coladas, and with dry ginger ale. It skirts the boundary of being over-sweet but does not quite cross over. Every time I taste this I visualize myself lazing in a hammock by a turquoise sea. There are worse day dreams. “Good” : 83/100 (3.5 stars)