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PIRATE'S
DELIGHT
Appleton Estate Reserve Jamaica Rum
by August West
The
blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie
series has put rum drinking back in the spotlight, but
at Appleton Estate, it’s been in vogue since the
18th century. The oldest sugar estate and distillery in
Jamaica, in the heart of the country’s sugar cane
belt, has been producing top-quality rums since at least
1749. While harvesting machines are used today, some sugar
cane plants on the estate are cut down the old-fashioned
way—by men wielding machetes.
The latest addition to the product line available in the
United States, Appleton Estate Reserve Jamaica Rum is a
non-vintage blend of twenty aged rums hand-selected by
Master Blender Joy Spence, the first female to earn such
a lofty title in the rum industry. While some of the components—called
marks of rum—were pot-stilled and others were column-stilled,
each of them has been aged a minimum of eight years in
oak barrels.
The Reserve is darker than the flagship Appleton Estate
V/X, with a honeyed aroma. The sweetness carries over to
the palate, where the satiny-smooth beverage also yields
notes of tobacco. The complex, 80-proof drink has a flavor
that grows on us; the more we taste, the more we enjoy
it.
While some rums are so fine that to add anything to them
but an ice cube would be considered an affront (such as Appleton
Estate 21 Year Old Jamaica Rum), Spence, a mother of
two, enjoys her creation with a splash of soda water. Feel
free to add your favorite mixer, make a classic daiquiri,
or enjoy it neat like Captain Jack Sparrow.
For
more information visit www.appletonrumus.com
Price:
$27
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COCKTAIL
RECIPE
Classic
Daiquiri
2 oz. Appleton Estate Reserve
1/2 oz. Lime juice
1/2 oz. Sugar syrup
Combine ingredients and shake vigorously with
crushed ice, strain with a fine strainer into
a martini glass, thus removing fine fragments
of lime and ice. |
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