CigarsLover Magazine Awards Issue

SPIRITS RUM AWARDS
1
Dillon
Brut de Fût
2013
RICH AND POWERFUL.
PEPPERY, LEATHER,
DARK TOBACCO.
COUNTRY
Martinique
ABV - PROOF
62%% - 124
PRICE
$ 85 - € 90
Located in the heart of Fort-de-France, Dillon has been developing
its rum-making expertise since 1779. This rhum
comes from the 2013 harvest and spent long years aging
in French barriques before being bottled at cask strength
in a limited series of 1,750 worldwide.
The alcoholic strength is perfectly integrated in a triumph
of noble wood spices, tropical fruit, and a peculiar visou
vein strongly marked by orange zest. It’s a very powerful
rhum to the palate, to drink quite carefully, it’s almost spicy
at first, but it then moves to toasted wood, leather, wax,
jam of tropical fruits, and candied citrus. The finish is long,
meaty, and peppery with elegant notes of dark tobacco
and a heart of cane juice.
This is an outstanding rhum at an outstanding price. It
shows all the complexity of pure cane juice spirits and all
the advantages of full proof bottling, without any faults. It’s
explosive but expressive, rich but harmonious, and intense
but perfectly balanced. A must.
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