Black Tot Last Consignment 70CL 54.3°
On July 31, 1970, a 300-year-old tradition came to an end: on that day, the very last ration of rum was served to the sailors aboard the Royal Navy vessels. Called “Black Tot Day”, this day is a benchmark in the history of the Navy.
The Last Consignment, distilled in pot stills and bottled at a natural degree of 54.3 degrees, is the result of the blend of rums produced in the 1940s in the British colonies (Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad).
Stored in stone jars since 1970 under customs control, this exceptional lot was unveiled on July 31, 2010. A single empty glass takes us back in time; a way, perhaps, to immerse ourselves among the troops of Her Majesty The Queen...
For more than 300 years, the sailors of the Royal Navy received a daily ration of rum, called Black Tot, in order to reward them for their service within this prestigious institution. But on July 31, 1970, this tradition suddenly came to an end, to the despair of the Queen's soldiers. This fateful day was given the name "Black Tot Day" and is even celebrated every year by the "Navy rum" lovers.
As for the reserves of the British navy, they were transferred into jars and stored in London under customs control where they were forgotten for almost forty years. Their discovery did not go unnoticed though... The luckiest of all was Sukhinder Singh who bought all the found jars to bottle them and sell them to amateurs and collectors eager to own a piece of history. But he didn't stop there and built on this discovery to create a rum that draws from that tradition while adding a modern interpretation to it. It was after no less than two years and 26 tries that he found the "perfect" recipe.
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