Worthy Park Export Manager Zan Kong Interview (Podcast)
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Posted
2 years ago
Rom fra Jamaica, frugt rom og uden melasse men på sukkerrør, slet ikke noget for mig..
Posted
almost 2 years ago
This is a great sub for traditional navy rums, packing in 54.5% ABV and colored a rich caramel mahogany hue. This is a cocktail workhorse! Great in tropical and tiki recipes calling for a dark rum, not as strong and overwhelming as OFTD (Plantation) can be, and much better bodies and tasting than Myers or Goslings .
This was originally to have been called “gunpowder proof”, but a certain litigious British brand prevented that from stealing their thunder.
Posted
over 2 years ago
Dark brown colour
Nice cask finish with vanilla on the tongue
Not too funky
Strong
Posted
5 months ago
Powerfull and strong taste, and somehow sweet and fruity at the same time. Dark caramel colour. Big character
Posted
1 year ago
Pretty much a home run for the price. Nose is reasonably light on the funk scale (but no doubt it is Jamaican), accompanied by a fruit sweetness, oak, alcohol, hints of molasses and maple.
Even less funk on the palate, but it's there. It's nice and spicy up front, peppery, lightly sweet evolving into a well-balanced woody presentation accented by mild earth, citrus, pineapple, with solid oak, molasses, and a bit of clove in the medium finish. I am surprised at how nicely layered and reasonably complex this is given the relative youthfulness. Semi-dry, and not much heat for the ABV; goes down easily, and opens up nicely with time in the glass.
Worthy of experimentation (no pun intended) in mixed cocktails, great in the Jet Pilot - but also serves nicely as a sipper. For the price, I've got no complaints. Definitely recommend it.
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over 1 year ago
Duft af banan, fermenteret frugt. En lille smule ananas. Smagen er også fermenteret frugt. Meget alkohol. Worthy Parks produkter er for mig noget af det værste. Det er alt for fermenteret, og deres Rum-Bar Overproof er det værste, der findes, og denne er kun marginalt bedre. (18. december 2021 i 1423.
Posted
over 2 years ago
High ester aroma; burned esterish body with fruity, caramel spicy touch. Longer burn in the tail.
Posted
over 2 years ago
Etwas zwischen Kirschsaft und Mahagoni im Glas. Ups, ein Schuss Karamellcouleur zuviel.
In der Nase stark und düster. Stark angebranntes Karamell, angekohlte Fässer und verbrannte Kräuter sind dominant, etwas Funk im Hintergrund.
Am Gaumen kräftig und stark. Etwas bitteres Karamell und ein wenig Holz.
Im Abgang bleibt eine bittere Schärfe zurück
Ein High Proof der nicht ganz überzeugt. Für Einsteiger und Mutige.
- 2cl Muster -
Something between cherry juice and mahogany in the glass. Oops, a dash of caramel couleur too much.
Strong and gloomy on the nose. Strong burnt caramel, charred barrels and burnt herbs are dominant, some funk in the background.
Powerful and strong on the palate. Some bitter caramel and a bit of wood.
A bitter spiciness lingers in the finish.
A high proof that does not quite convince. For beginners and the brave.
- 2cl sample -
Posted
over 2 years ago
Had just a sample of this Pot Still rum, a blend of rums that’s consisting of unaged rum as well as rum aged for up to 3 years.
The aroma is fresh and I recognize fruity flavours.
In mouth, palate and during the quite long finish I detect tropical fruits, ginger and oak.
Overall it’s a great high esters, funky and well balanced rum with heavy flavors.
Picture: My emptied sample poured in a glass.
Posted
over 2 years ago
Asi nejlepší dark co sem měl. Dobrý samotné ale ideální do drinků. V chuti hodně karamel a trochu estery.
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Good for mixing but lacks complexity
6
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out of 10
This is a direct-from-distillery blend of aged and unaged rums with some added caramel color created primarily for mixing by Worthy Park Estate. It seems to be Worthy Park’s direct answer to Smith & Cross created and released just last year, so it’s fairly new on the scene.
I am a noted Worthy Park stan, so I have been eyeing this one for my mixing collection since it’s announcement. I finally found a bottle at a local shop here in Atlanta. Before I mix with it I want to know how it measures on its own.
The nose on this rum is far simpler than any other Worthy Park rum I have had to date. It’s mainly just four notes: Sorghum Molasses, Baby Banana (the small more pungent bananas), faint Modelers Glue, and just a hint of Bacon jelly. That last note is a note I have never had on a rum before and it is interesting, but fairly faint. It took me several whiffs to pick it out. The composition on the nose is decent but a little janky. It’s pungent and pleasant but you get the feeling that something somewhere is muffled and out of synch.
The palate mostly mirrors the nose in that it once again starts with big Sorghum Molasses that turns into Banana. Following the banana I also get Cheerwine (a flavored Cherry Soda from North Carolina). There remains a significant ethanol note that lingers in on the tongue and in the throat. This rum drinks a bit hot.
The finish continues to follow generally the same themes but with a slight alteration. The finish starts with a distinct Cherry Cough Drop note and then morphs into a dry Banana note like dried Banana chips. The ethanol burn continues through the finish and the theme remains hot.
So this rum is a bit of a let down compared to my experiences with other Worthy Park rums. It is simple, hot, and that delightful, famous Worthy Park funk is massively toned down. This may be intended to compete with Smith & Cross but this is nowhere near as funky or as characterful.
It’s not a bad rum and I can certainly appreciate what they are going for but it lacks the full bodied, complex, big fruity character that I normally associate with Worthy Park distillates. Despite being bottled at 54.5% it is nowhere close to as interesting and flavorful as Hamilton Pot Still Jamaican Black, and to choose between the two is no contest: Hamilton Pot Still Jamaican Black wins by a country mile - at least as a sipper.
All that said, this rum mainly exists to mix with, and I suspect will function excellently for that purpose. As I said I can appreciate what’s going on here. It’s still better than so many other rums on the market; it just doesn’t hold up against other Worthy Park rums, mainly because of the very high standards set by that distillery. This is a fine rum, that I am sure will be more than adequate for my Mai Tais…it just lacks the funky complexity to double as a sipper like the Hamilton bottling does
Short Description: A Cambridge educated Jamaican banking lawyer with a stiff upper lip. The funk is in there somewhere deep down but it’s been heavily self suppressed in an attempt to fit in with high society.
Nose: Sorghum Molasses, Baby Banana, faint Modelers Glue, faint Bacon jelly
Palate: Sorghum Molasses, Banana, Cheerwine (Cherry soda), Ethanol
Finish: Cherry Cough Drops, Banana chips, Ethanol
ABV: 54.5%
Country of Origin: Jamaica
Distillery: Worthy Park