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- Category Rum
- Country Barbados
- Region Caribbean
- Distillery Travellers Liquors Distillery
- Age 15 Year Old
- Distillation date 2005
- Style Rum
- Bottling date 2020
- Maturation ex-Bourbon casks
- Alcohol 61%*
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Holmes Cay
Belize 2005 Single Cask Rum
(0.75l,
61%*)
*please note that the ABV of this bottle may vary
Windyside Spirits was founded by husband & wife combo Eric Kaye and Maura Gedid. Eric introduced Maura to fine aged Rums while they were dating and it became a shared passion. They formed Windyside Spirits in 2019 and set to importing premium single-cask Rums to support their new Holmes Cay brand. Their first stop, the famous Foursquare Distillery in Barbados where Eric and Maura struck a deal for their inaugural release. Since then they have reached out to curate the examples of Rum from all over and deliver them to the world.
The Traveller’s Liquors Distillery sits in the old town section of Belize City. Turns out that they had four casks of double-distilled, molasses based, fifteen year-old Belizean Rum just sitting there aging in their Caribbean warehouse. Holmes Cay Belize 2005 is a strictly limited edition of this found treasure bottled at 61% ABV. Rum fans will immediately recognize that those stats alone are something special and obviously in very short supply.
- Category Rum
- Country Barbados
- Region Caribbean
- Distillery Travellers Liquors Distillery
- Age 15 Year Old
- Distillation date 2005
- Style Rum
- Bottling date 2020
- Maturation ex-Bourbon casks
- Alcohol 61%*
Appearance / Color
Dark Mahogany
Nose / Aroma / Smell
The aroma is dense and rich with notes of peppercorns, caramel, and English toffee.
Flavor / Taste / Palate
The palate is full-bodied with notes of humidor, chocolate, espresso, mango, ripe apricot, and molasses.
Finish
The finish is average length, warming, and a bit dry.
Dark Mahogany
Nose / Aroma / Smell
The aroma is dense and rich with notes of peppercorns, caramel, and English toffee.
Flavor / Taste / Palate
The palate is full-bodied with notes of humidor, chocolate, espresso, mango, ripe apricot, and molasses.
Finish
The finish is average length, warming, and a bit dry.
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Holmes Cay
Belize 2005 Single Cask Rum
Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Rum (usually) comes from molasses, the sweet and syrupy residue of refining sugarcane into sugar. Molasses is over 50% sugar, but it also contains significant amounts of minerals and other trace elements, contributing to the final flavor.
A little bit of etymology; nobody really knows where the word Rum comes from. The most popular suggestions are Rum (the Romani word for 'potent'), Rumbullion (an uproar), Saccharum (sugar in Latin), and Rummer (a Dutch drinking glass).
Rum is why we measure alcohol proof. To make sure Rum wasn’t watered down, it had to be ‘proven’ by soaking gunpowder with it. If it was ‘overproof’ (higher than 57.15 % vol.), then the gunpowder would ignite, but if it wouldn’t, it was ‘underproof.’
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Next time you have a tipple of Rum you can say that you're tapping the Admiral. This intriguing phrase comes from the great Admiral Nelson who was killed in the battle of Trafalgar off of Spain. The story is that his body was preserved in Rum to be shipped back to England but, when the barrel arrived, some of the Rum was missing and said to have been siphoned off by some desperate or unknowing sailors. It's a great story but most likely false.
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Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Rum (usually) comes from molasses, the sweet and syrupy residue of refining sugarcane into sugar. Molasses is over 50% sugar, but it also contains significant amounts of minerals and other trace elements, contributing to the final flavor.
A little bit of etymology; nobody really knows where the word Rum comes from. The most popular suggestions are Rum (the Romani word for 'potent'), Rumbullion (an uproar), Saccharum (sugar in Latin), and Rummer (a Dutch drinking glass).
Rum is why we measure alcohol proof. To make sure Rum wasn’t watered down, it had to be ‘proven’ by soaking gunpowder with it. If it was ‘overproof’ (higher than 57.15 % vol.), then the gunpowder would ignite, but if it wouldn’t, it was ‘underproof.’
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Next time you have a tipple of Rum you can say that you're tapping the Admiral. This intriguing phrase comes from the great Admiral Nelson who was killed in the battle of Trafalgar off of Spain. The story is that his body was preserved in Rum to be shipped back to England but, when the barrel arrived, some of the Rum was missing and said to have been siphoned off by some desperate or unknowing sailors. It's a great story but most likely false.
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