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Diamond 2005 Rum Nation Small Batch

Lot: 9532

Diamond 2005 Rum Nation Small Batch

Winning Bid: £77

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Diamond
Age: 
n/a
Vintage: 
2005
Region: 
Guyana
Bottler: 
Rum Nation
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
58.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
two-column metal coffey still
Base: 
Guyana molasses
product Details

Diamond 2005 Rum Nation Small Batch

Rum Nation was founded in 1999 by Fabio Rossi, CEO of Rossi & Rossi and modelled after his highly successful whisky bottling company, Wilson & Morgan. Since its inception it has earned a good reputation for producing some excellent quality and value drinking rums, especially at the premium end of the spectrum. 

This was distilled on the traditional two-column stills at Diamond in 2005. It was bottled in 2016 as part of the Small Batch Rare Rums series.

Established around 1670, the Diamond Estate is the only remaining rum distiller in Guyana. Located on the east bank of the Demerara river, the distillery is operated by Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL), the company created by the government in Guyana as it attempted to consolidate the nation’s rum production. This began in 1974 and culminated with the closure of Uitvlugt in 1999. Diamond blends its El Dorado brand using distillate from various combinations of its rum-producing stills, which include the pair of two-column English coffey stills, installed there in the 1950s and a rarely used high-ester John Dore pot still. These operate alongside the “Heritage Stills” acquired from Uitvlugt, which are Uitvlugt’s own historic four-column French Savalle stills, the Versailles and Port Mourant wooden pot stills, and the Enmore wooden coffey still, the oldest and last of its kind in the world. El Dorado was launched in 1992, but the distillery has continued its historic practice of providing barrels to independent bottlers, resulting is a wealth of impressive releases like this.

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