2006 Rum Trail, Small Batch, 18-Year-Old, Rum, Barbados (48%) vs Berry Bros & Rudd Fiji 2010 12 Year Old Rum Cask No. 18

Berry Bros & Rudd Fiji 2010 12 Year Old Rum Cask No. 18

Although sugar cane is indigenous to Fiji and grows wild, its importance as a crop was not realised until 1870 when cotton prices slumped. Commercial production of rum is thought to have begin 20 years later. Boom! This Fijian rum leaps out the glass from miles away, an incredible hybrid of Jamaican style tropical funk and agricole like synthetic fruit rampages to you. The palate offers linseed oil, pineapple, cream soda like vanilla and beeswax.