Barrell Private Release J552 Single Cask Rum

The Barrell Private Release Series is a project in detailed blending on a scale small enough to allow extreme precision. It lets the fantastic blenders at Barrell exercise their blending expertise while maintaining a single barrel-like scale controlled entirely by hand and by palate. The goal is always to maximize the best attributes of each component. Every ounce of every ingredient changes the overall character of these blends, as does the barrel that each one is aged in. For that reason, these barrels take months to polish and perfect. Each release is a unique blend of rums from Barbados, Jamaica, and Guyana, as well as Rhum Agricôle from Martinique. Once created, these blends are married in single casks, many of which were previously used for other spirits and/or wines.  This batch, J552, is finished in a pear brandy barrel and is anchored by pot still rum from Jamaica's Clarendon distillery, which makes up 55% of the blend. On the nose, that tell tale Jamaican fruitiness is immedi