Silva Collection #2 - New Yarmouth 2005 - 2024 - Jamaica - 55.8% - 50cl

"New Yarmouth Distillery, 2005 vintage, 19 years of continental aging, including a maple wood barrel finish. Take flight aboard Est'Air and get ready for a shot, acrobatics, and aromatic aerobatics! As an acquaintance would say: "My wife has painted her nails again, without opening the window!"" More than 700g of esters per hectoliter of pure alcohol, that's for sure, we're flying! Esters, harlequin candies, esters, sour, esters, rotten and stewed fruit, esters, grilled pineapple, esters, beeswax, esters, damp wood, camphor, esters, menthol and love! The integration of alcohol is simply phenomenal.  The gentle and slow reduction that was done directly in the barrel allowed this sweetness, this lightness of the alcohol, even though it was high. To be honest, when tasting this barrel, the palate was not very convincing. Almost flat, dry, not very greedy.  It was therefore following this that the choice of the maple barrel was made. This excessively greedy wood (an angel's share of about 18%) gave its fat, its enveloping, soft texture, its crunchiness. We discover notes of praline, peanuts, and syrupy wood. Maple is certainly very "thirsty" but its contribution is fabulous! A fat worthy of an olive oil made in Provence which accompanies a colossal rum which is just waiting to explode our palates!  So here is this very fine result, the story of a barrel which tamed and ennobled a titan. Stewed esters on a soft and gourmand wood, nuts galore, walnuts, almonds, toasted hazelnuts, and esters... ! What a joy.."