Black Tot Master Blenders Reserve 2022 Rum

Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve 2022 is the third release in Black Tot's Master Blender's Reserve series, created by master blender Oliver Chilton. It brings together rums from Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados with Black Tot's Perpetual Reserve rum, and is designed to echo the flavours of the brand's historical collection, which celebrates the heritage of the Royal Navy rum ration.

The nose opens with dark chocolate nibs and toasted hazelnuts, balanced by warm orange, cinnamon sticks and tropical fruit, with blackcurrant and raspberry leaf developing in the glass. The palate brings milk chocolate, raisins, café latte and ripe banana over baked demerara sugar and crème caramel, before a long finish of cinnamon, nutmeg, chilli and cocoa. Bottled at 54.5% ABV, it rewards sipping neat or with a drop of water.