Worthy Park Single Estate Rum Reviews, Plus Aperitif: XXX/5 v. Reserve v. 2006 12yo скачать в хорошем качестве

Worthy Park Single Estate Rum Reviews, Plus Aperitif: XXX/5 v. Reserve v. 2006 12yo

I love Worthy Park. The relative newcomer to Jamaican pot still rum, they gained considerable notoriety back in the day through some really good independent bottlings (like this 2005 from Velier, say:    • Pot Still Rumparison: Hamilton St. Lucia 2...  ). More recently they've put out the Rum Bar range, of which I've reviewed the Overproof (   • Worthy Park Rum Bar White Overproof Rum re...  ) and the Gold (   • Denizen Merchant's Reserve v. Rum-Bar Gold...  ). But still more recently they've done their own "Single Estate" series, which represents Worthy Park's own-bottled attempts to take on Foursquare (and maybe Hampden) in the ranks of aged rum nobility. Attempts which somehow I've never gotten around to trying. Until now - today I'm reviewing the standard Single Estate and the super-premium super-limited vintage 2006 12yo (samples of which I got from u/mikehooker1 in a trade - thanks, Mike!!). And just to make things fun, I'm also throwing in the XXX/5 from Afish/Fine Drams as an opener. Stats: XXX/Five (Saint Catherine/Worthy Park, 2 years old for Fine Drams/Aficionados; 400 bottles, bottled 1/9/20; 67.7 g/hLAA; unchillfiltered, natural color; 65.0% ABV), 84+/100 Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve Rum (6-10 Years Old, bottled circa 2018; 45% ABV), 83+/100 Worthy Park Single Estate 2006 12 Year Old Rum (bottled circa 2018; 56% ABV), 88/100 The XXX/5 isn't aiming for profundity: it's a young 130-proof sledgehammer made of olives and flowers and vanilla, and it's a perfect little value for what it is. But keeping to that same value question, for me at least it's the upper-level official bottlings that miss the mark. The 2006 is lovely, and it's doing the "modern" oaky bourbony style of rum very well - it's just that it's not doing it quite as well as Foursquare ECS, and at a higher price point. The Reserve, too, is solid, yet I'm forced to puzzle over whether it's actually worth a $35-40 premium over the little Rum Bar Gold. I actually poured a glass of the Gold after this video and they're super-close: the Reserve is certainly woodier and a little greener and bottled 5% stronger, but its younger sibling mostly keeps up with it as a pure matter of quality. So I'm left feeling a little disappointed by the upper echelons of Worthy Park's range: we know what they can do, so why don't these officials quite get to doing it?