R. L. Seale’s Aged Rum 10 Year Old

We have another writer for The Dark Rum blog, he will be drawing from his experience as a relative newcomer to aged rum and rum in general. I hope he has been as thoroughly bitten by the bug as I have and will go on to be a regular contributor to this site. His first contribution is this excellent review of R. L. Seale’s 10 Year Old from Barbados.

Being relatively new to the world of dark rum outside of the token offerings of the supermarket shelves planogram, I looked forward to taking off the training wheels. Through gentle coaxing of our esteemed host I took my first steps into the epicurean delights of the dark rum connoisseur with a bottle of R.L Seales 10 year old from Barbados.

My previous Barbadian rum experiences had come from Mount Gay Eclipse and Cockspur’s 5 Star, both solid all round performers and stable of the ‘mid week mixer’ so I was looking forward to yet another positive experience from our main event.

R.L Seales 10 year old comes from the only distillery still family run and owned in Barbados and you can tell that rum making passion from the off in the bottle. Colonially inspired by the early Caribbean sailors, the bent neck bottle looks like its been freshly plundered from some recently undiscovered booty and is simply stunning.

Given other aged rums I’d seen I was surprised firstly by its colour, brilliantly light with a stunning amber glow. With the nose too I was equally surprised, syrupy sweet with hints of vanilla and almonds, like being smashed in the face with a Tortuga rum cake. This gently dissipated on tasting as its characteristics changed in the mouth showing off its full 10 years. Incredibly smooth with a devilishly morish butternut taste, moving to a subtle but clean hint of oak with hardly any after burn to speak of.

Suitably impressed and with a newly found ‘masonic’ sense of belonging R.L Seales has made the beginning of my journey into the world of aged rum a memorable one.

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