Single-Barrel Rum (Estate Diamond, St Croix, US Virgin Islands) -- aged 12 years
Nose: Sea air, brine, pickle juice, capers, olives, young oak, young sugarcane, caramel.
Taste: Young sugarcane sweetness with contrasting oak tannins, bark, caramel, burnt sugar.
Finish: Cinnamon, charred oak, olive juice, leather, sour young green wood, a little bit of generic herbs.