Black Tot Finest Caribbean is inspired by tradition and the motivation to blend delicious rums from around the world. Our Head Blender, Oliver Chilton, has developed a recipe featuring some of the world’s finest rums while creating a new and individual style. With nothing added or taken away, our final blend has been selected for its ability to allow the individual flavours of each rum to shine.
TASTING NOTES
FROM THE PRODUCER
NOSE
The copper-coloured liquid is immediately inviting, with tropical breezes of pineapple, melon and a feast of Caribbean sweets. Thick scents of banana fritters, plantain tarts, overripe mango and crème brûlée are lifted by fresh honeysuckle blossom and eucalyptus.
PALATE
Rounded and rich, with butter toffee, banana cream, and caramel to start. Gentle cinnamon and allspice build with more fruit – baked apples, pineapple cubes, and dried mango – joined by coffee, dark chocolate, and black pepper.
FINISH
Chocolatey coffee fades, leaving roasted bananas and a tingle of anise.
RECIPE
Black Tot Finest Caribbean balances the fruity, honeyed notes of Barbadian rum, the full-bodied elements of Guyanese rum and the intense, funkiness of Jamaican rum, while allowing each of these individual styles to shine. Below you will see the breakdown of our blend composition in percentage terms. We put enormous value on transparency, and so we are delighted to share our recipe with you.
BARBADOS
The birthplace of molasses rum in the Caribbean. Barbados is famous for elegant and balanced blends of pot & column still rum, with notes of tropical fruits, vanilla, and coconut.
35%
5 YEAR OLD
BARBADOS POT / COLUMN STILL
GUYANA
Guyana historically has been one of the world’s leading producers of molasses and rum, and it was undoubtedly the heart of the Navy Rum blend. Despite the consolidation of its many distilleries, Guyana’s historic stills have survived and continue to make a variety of rich and flavourful rum marques at Demerara Distillers.
40%
3-5 YEAR OLD
GUYANA POT / COLUMN STILL
20%
UNAGED
GUYANA POT / COLUMN STILL
JAMAICA
Classically a heavier style pot-still rum, Jamaican distilleries like Hampden utilise longer fermentation times, as well as wild yeast strains, and the addition of dunder and muck pits in their molasses ferment to create distinctively big, funky flavours.
5%
3 YEAR OLD
JAMAICA POT STILL
RAW MATERIAL
Molasses
DISTILLATION
Barbados & Guyana pot/column still and Jamaica pot still
CASK TYPE
Ex-bourbon 200 litre white American oak casks
MATURATION
100% tropically aged in country of origin
CHILL FILTERED
No
BLEND COMPOSITION
A blend of rums from Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana
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