Angostura 15 Year Old “1787” Rum, Trinidad & Tobago 40%

Description

Angostura 15 Year Old “1787” Rum is a hand crafted 15 year old rum, a super-premium blend of rums aged for a minimum of 15 years. As well as rums, they also produce the world-famous Angostura Bitters.

The House of Angostura was founded in 1824 in the Venezuelan town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar) by a German doctor, Dr Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, Surgeon-General in Simon Bolivar’s army in Venezuela. In around 1820 he created 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. It wasn’t 1949 when Trinidad Distillers Limited was established, with a state of the art multi-column commercial distillery located in Laventille, that they seriously got into rum production (alth0ugh the Siegert family had been blending rums since the 1900s).

Angostura 15 Year Old “1787” Rum is only produced in very limited quantities and is a blend of the finest mature rums, from hand-picked casks by Angostura’s master blender, Carol Homer-Caesar. 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 15 years prior to being blended and re-casked. Upon the rum’s optimum maturity it is hand-drawn, filtered and hand bottled.

Angostura 15 Year Old “1787” Rum is named after the year 1787, a very important year in the development of Trinidad and Tobago which saw the opening of island’s the very first sugar mill at the Lapeyrouse Estate. It was first released in 2016.