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Nose: Quite delicate and a little thin, sharpish and fading fast, perhaps demonstrating why Velier’s decision to crank up the amperes was the right one. That’s more or less enough to be going on with. The bottles are tall, squarish and tapering - supposedly resembling a cricket bat, an homage to their issue - so watch your step when having them in your home bar… they tip over easy. No year of make is available ( we can assume around 1995 or thereabouts). Some basic facts, then: “ living room” strength ( to quote my Danish friend Henrik’s immortal phrase), still-specific, and confirmed by the El Dorado FB team that they are a minimum of twelve years old ( Carl Kanto told me 13-16 years old, for all of them), aged in ex-bourbon barrels. Nowadays they’ve become sought after items, and still DDL is doing very little to promote them, re-issue newer variants, expand the range, or to make them stronger. I get the distinct impression that eight years ago when they first appeared ( to commemorate the 2007 cricket world cup partly held in Guyana) they barely sold enough to keep making them. They are non-age-specific they are issued at what deep core rumboys consider an insulting 40% ( at a time where 43-46% is practically a new norm for single barrel rums) and they seem to be issued as an afterthought instead of as core products in DDL’s range.

That said, there are problems with the rums reviewed here. So certainly some vision is at work in the hallowed halls of Diamond, however imperfect to us fanboys. When one observes the raves Velier, Cadenhead, RN, Silver Seal and others have gotten for their tightly focussed expressions hewing to precisely those coordinates, one can only wonder what DDL’s malfunction is.Īnd yet, here they are, these three, originating from the Port Mourant wooden double pot still, Enmore’s wooden column still and Uitvlugt’s French savalle still. Ignoring the head of steam gathered by independent bottlers in the last ten years or so, DDL has never given either prominence or real attention to what could be Demerara rum’s killer app – single barrel, cask strength expressions that are still-specific.

The three single barrel expressions issued by DDL are a curious bunch.