WIRD 2000 Whisky Broker 17 Year Old

A 2000 vintage rum from the West India Rum Distillery in Barbados. Bottled in 2017 by Whisky Broker.

The West India Rum Distillery, more commonly referred to by the acronym, WIRD, is a historic distillery in Barbados that has been producing rum since the 19th century. It currently operates four still sets, two of which are four-column stills. The newest of them is Canadian made, and the older one installed by English coppersmiths, John Dore, in 1975. The other two are pot stills, both connected to vintage rectifying columns, the oldest of which dates back to 1893. In the later 20th century the distillery was best known for its Cockspur rum brand, and in 1985 became one of the founding partners in National Rums of Jamaica, the holding company that owns Long Pond and a share of Clarendon. In 2017 however, Cockspur was sold off to a company called Woodland Radicle as WIRD was acquired by Maison Ferrand, a cognac producer established in 1989. The company had branched out into gin-making in 1995, and its purchase of WIRD completed its journey from independent rum bottler to distillers, following the introduction of its acclaimed Plantation Rum label in 2003.

Whiskybroker was founded in 2010 with the intention of supplying larger quantities of whisky to clubs and connoisseurs to buy and bottle in bulk. In addition to this service, they bottle some of the casks themselves, keeping the presentation simple and the costs down in order to offer affordable independent alternatives to standard distillery bottlings.

One of 213 bottles drawn from barrel #46, marker BBR (BRS).