Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve 70cl 54.5°
This Black Tot Master Blender’s Reserve bottled in 2021 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the last rum ration offered to Australian Navy sailors serving on British ships.
The old edition Black Tot 50th Anniversary was used as a base after being put back in ex-Sherry casks. This blend includes rums between 9 and 24 years old, from Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica and Australia including a rum from the Beenleigh distillery. It also contains some rums from the original British Royal Navy blend.
The result is a powerful expression in the mouth, very marked by exotic fruits and spices.
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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