Nearly a yr after Devon Trevathan and Colton Weinstein of Liba Spirits, Chad Newton of You Are Right here Hospitality and Mavericks frontman Raul Malo launched their first batch of Trovador Silver Rum, the inventive quartet has come out with a brand new hit with their Double Barrel Aged Rum.
Beginning out with basically the identical base spirits as their Silver Rum — a mix of Cuban-style, Dominican and Mexican distillates — Trovador has taken it to the following stage by ageing their rum in new American oak barrels. A lot of rums are aged in used American whiskey barrels, stealing sweetness and shade from any leftover bourbon they will leech from the oak, however Trovador’s use of latest oak results in a way more refined end result.
Slightly than slapping his identify on an current rum, The Mavericks frontman is constructing his model from the bottom up
The rum undoubtedly extracts shade from the barrel, and the pepper and dried fruit notes are from the wooden, not any leftover whiskey. There are undoubtedly hints of vanilla and caramel from the toast and char of the cask, plus some lingering sweetness that pulls out the anticipated molasses from the rum.
In contrast to their Silver Rum, Trovado doesn’t charcoal filter the Double Barrel Aged Rum, leaving a bolder character and a luscious mouthfeel to the 86-proof product. Do not confuse this with a darkish rum the place the free rules of the rum world enable for added sweeteners and caramel coloring. This can be a Latin product aged utilizing conventional American strategies.
The rum enters the barrel at 140 proof to maximise the extraction of shade and taste, after which the distillers let the rum inform them the right bottling proof. After they sampled it at 43 p.c ABV, there was unanimous consent to bottle at that proof.
Trovador has seen good pickup for his or her Silver product, and so they count on a bigger statewide rollout for this new rum early subsequent yr. If you cannot discover it but at your native retailer, ask them about it or choose up a bottle on-line — it is well worth the hunt.
