Topper's Spiced

This is my first high ester rum and it’s not like anything I’ve tried before. The funk is very strong, and it also exhibits subtle characteristics of traditional molasses rum, some oak, and some dryer sugar cane style. It was like a party in my mouth with popping complexity, but it went down heavily. Definitely only a sipper, just difficult to have a lot in one sitting, and doesn’t pair well with anything besides itself.

This was one of my last ones to try from Toppers of St Maartens, but I hate to say that it only ranks average on all of the spiced rums that I have reviewed up to this point. Not bad, but not great. If you want a good unsugared spiced rum, try Foursquare Spiced.