Worthy Park Single Estate Reserve 6-10 Years

Choosing barrels from a certain square-bottled whiskey was a great choice for this spirit. The overripe banana and butter of the spirit develop into partially-cooked banana bread with the addition of ex-whiskey barrels. Great balance of wood, spice, and fruit, pulled from the oak oven early enough to retain the character of the raw spirit, but late enough to develop.
This is what happens when you use 100% Jamaican-grown cane, 100% pot distillation, and careful choices in maturation.

Perhaps a touch hot for most, and might do better bottled at 43%.

Funk is mild in it. It's not dominat among several other layers of tastes.
First of them is part of young, almost light rum. Again mild spiceness, very natural and delicious.
It burns a bit, just for second and then explodes into raisins, plumes, chocolate and tobacco notes.
Aftertaste is smoky and long enough.
Excellent, sensational rum!

Minus one point - expensive.

At first I didn't really like it, but some more tastings a while after first opening it has really grown to me and loving it now. Very fruity with sweet bananas, pineapple and a little bit of citrus. Also liquorice, wood, smoke and pepper. Decent medium funk, quite smooth, fresh and oily in the mouth. Taste really keeps on going in the mouth. Great!

Sampled at a Rogue Rum Club tasting 5/25/22. Crazy funk aroma. Complex. Peppermint, chocolate, cachaca, doughy, woody. Peaches and honey. Delicious.

yes, first Worthy Park, so far i ve tried (speaking of Jamaican aged rum) only Hampden single estate and the over proof version (both 8 years old), and the WP on the nose have that funky woody/smoky aroma similar to Hampdens, but in the mouth it delivers me less flavors, it s on the dry side (like Appleton 12 and 15) 45% also is good ABV (i really hate when a rum have just 40 or 38% ABV), i expected more flavors for a 100% pot still rum, i see people around here have this banana flavor but i really don t catch this flavor (it remind me to RL Seale 10, but ok i ve paid 11 euro less for it), will give it a 7 ! conclusion: not a bad rum but probably they have much better releases (because pot still 100% is a rare thing today in the world of rum)

45% ABVJamaican rum from the famous Worthy Park distillery (located in the centre of Jamaica). It is a blend of rums made by pot distillation, aged for 6 - 10 years in bourbon barrels.

Bottle: Very nice tall.
Colour: Gold

Smell: Brilliant! Nice and mild Jamaican funk. Overripe tropical fruits (banana, pineapple), vanilla, fermented plums. A little tobacco and wood at the end.
Mouth: Rather drier and slightly sour. Lemon zest, ginger, tan wood and tobacco.
Finish: Long.

Summary: It tastes like a fruity whisky. I recommend it for beginners who want to taste a typical Jamaican rum. Fantastic aroma, drier but quite complex flavour.

Overall rating: 8/10

It’s funky. It’s alright by itself but better mixed in a simple cocktail.

Great definition for a Jamaican Pot Still rum. Subtle funk, but enough for an intro. Still smooth for sipping. Minor heat. Sweet fermented fruit nose. Full palate. She got legs and will singe your nose hairs.

One of my go to rums for light funk, tons of stone fruit notes.