Worthy Park 2008 Special Cask Series Port Finish 10-Year

Bought me two bottles of this Special Cask Release from Worthy Park during the last Rum Cruise with Birka Cruises in the Baltic Sea.
I choose this one cause I heard it was the best one in the first batch Special Cask Release released in 2018.
It’s distilled in pot still back in 2008 whereafter it was aged for 9 years in ex-bourbon casks. Thereafter it was transferred to 1423 in Denmark where it was finished during one year in a former Port Cask before being bottled at ABV 56% in just 585 bottles.
The nose is rich, fruity, round and balanced with notes of banana, vanilla, toffee, port and oak.
In mouth and at the palate it’s very intense, rich and fruity with notes of port, pepper, mocha, black currant, orange, raisin, pineapple and banana.
The finish is rather long and dry with notes of mocha, toffee, oak and raisin.
Overall a great port finished rum that not loses its Jamaican funky profile.
Picture: My opened bottle with a poured glass in my private rum bar.

Föredrog Sherry då denna smakade lite för mycket port. Tog över jamaikasmaken.

Worthy Park is definitely my favorite Jamaican rum. This is not my favorite Worthy Park, but it is damn good. It enters clean and smooth with Jamaican Funk and oak. Slippery smooth. Velvety bite. Thin in the mouth and across the pallet. Not immensly complex but there is much in the background. Then the port emerges and the balance is clear. The finish is beauutiful and lingering. One could argue whether or not Jamaican Funk and port are a good team. i like the sherry and Oleroso cask editions better, but this is still a formidable sipper.

I expected more, there is almost no difference for me, if I compare it with reserve. There is more leather and sherry in the background, but nope, not my cup of tea.

Warm and sweet raisin aroma with spicy tones. Taste is strong (56%) combination of basic wild fruity floral layer and porto . Aftertasze is nice and long. Almost 9points.

Původ: Jamajka
Alkohol: 56%
Aroma: Pralinky, smažený banán, hřebíček a znatelný je i vliv sudu po portském. (86 b)
Chuť: Sílu alkoholu (56%) nezapře, je to šleha. Ananas, banán, zázvor, k tomu něco málo z portského, návdavkem pak rumové pralinky, rumová tresť. Síla je znát i v pikantní dochuti, která přechází až do peprnosti, kde se objeví opět ten smažený banán. (86 b)
Body: 86/100