Rum Shark 2011 Dominicana Single Vintage Barrel 5 10-Year

In this edition we are introducing you to the rum originating from the Alcoholes Finos Dominicanos (AFD) distillery which belongs to the portfolio of the biggest rum producer in the Dominican Republic – Barceló company. In the case of AFD, we can talk about a very modern distillery finished in 2010 and because Barceló company puts maximum effort into ecologically friendly production, the AFD was built with the smallest ecological impact on the environment. It is one of the pioneering distilleries in further bagasse processing (extracted dry sugar cane fiber). The incineration of this biomass and the use of solar panels installed on the premises of the distillery together provide up to 96 % of the used electricity in one year. The AFD distillery employs about 4,000 people and altogether the company farms on 80,000 ha of sugar cane plantations and from this creates about 18 million liters of alcohol yearly.

Sugar cane syrup that is fermented by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae type of yeast for up to 7 days is used for rum production there. Further distillation takes place in multi-column stills that produce 95 % ABV newmake. The newmake is diluted to 65 % ABV before it is filled into barrels. The American white oak barrels after Tennessee Whiskey are used for this purpose. Currently, the distillery’s warehouses store about 40,000 of these barrels.

link to details from bottler: https://www.rumshark.cz/dominicana-2011-1-en/

what I have found
NOSE: Citruses, Fruit, Chocolate, Oak
TASTE: Vanilla, Dark Chocolate, Burnt Oak, Citruses

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