Angostura 1824 Rum, 12 Year Old 40%

Description

Angostura 1824 Rum is a hand crafted 12 year old rum and is the flagship of the Angostura Rum range, and yes, it is the same Angostura who make the iconic Bitters.

The company was founded around 1830 in the Venezuelan town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar) by a German doctor, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, Surgeon-General in Simon Bolivar’s army in Venezuela. Around 1820 he invented Angostura Bitters as a medicine to improve appetite and digestive well-being of the soldiers. The family moved to Trinidad in 1875 and the company became famous and prospered through the sale of their bitters. However, it wasn’t until 1949 when Trinidad Distillers Limited was established, and a state of the art multi-column commercial distillery located in Laventille, that they seriously got into rum production (alth0ugh the Siegert’s had been blending rums since the 1900s).

Angostura 1824 Rum is only produced in very limited quantities (60,000 bottles per year) and is a blend of the finest mature rums, from hand-picked casks by Angostura’s master blende, John Georges. Angostura is “the rum” from Trinidad – a claim no other rum can make. The unique flavour of Angostura comes from the fact that they only source rums from their own distillery in Port of Spain, Trinidad. As mentioned, this is a selection of rums, made from fermented molasses, that have been aged in charred American oak bourbon barrels for a minimum of 12 years prior to being blended and re-casked. Upon the rum’s optimum maturity it is hand-drawn, filtered and hand bottled. Angostura 1824 12 Year Old rum is so named after the year the distillery was founded.