Plantation Xaymaca Rum 700ml

This 100 pot still Jamaican rum made with a blend of spirits from Long Pond and Clarendon distilleries which Maison Ferrand now owns a third of after purchasing the West Indies Rum Distillery in 2017 Master blender Alexandre Gabriel created the Xaymaca pronounced Zaymuckuh brand  the original name for Jamaica that the indigenous Arawaks who inhabited Jamaica well before Columbus set foot on the island in 1494 gave it Xaymaca actually means land of wood and water ColourAmber NoseVery complex slightly smoky and meaty with fruity herbal and sour notes building up Next vanilla come forward almost pastrylike with cooked banana bitter orange peel and ripe pineapple PalateDry with a more floral and fruitier profile of rose water soursop pear white grape apricot and sugarapple Next some coconut milk balsam allspices bread and nuts emerge  ABV 430