Ron Millonario XO Reserva Especial 40%

Description

Ron Millonario XO Reserva Especial is a super-premium rum from Peru. Like its little brother, the Ron Millonario Solera 15 Year Old Reserva Especial Rum, the XO is is derived from sugar cane molasses.

The company can trace its beginnings back to 1904 when the Hacienda Agrícola de Chiclayo was founded in Chiclayo a small settlement between the sea and the mountains known as the ‘city of friendship.’ This was a cooperative set up by local farmers who built a small sugar refinery to sell their sugar. It was not until 1938 when a Scottish column still was imported that the cooperative entered into the rum distillation business with Ron Millonario first being released in 1950.

After careful selection the sugar cane molasses goes through the watchful process of fermentation, distillation and ageing, bringing together old and modern techniques, and uniting art, science and tradition. Years of careful observation and selection have given rise to perfectly adapted yeasts that slowly convert the molasses into alcohol giving the rum its characteristic bouquet.

Ron Millonario XO is distilled in three old Scottish column stills and is thereafter goes through a kind of solera ageing system using cask made of American and Slavonian oak. Four (maybe five) rows of the solera system are employed. The main part of the blend is 18 and 21 year old rum but parts of the blend are rumoured to be up to 30 years old. This XO Rum comes in a very attactive square shaped decanter.