Dead Reckoning Rumolution 2025

Description

DEAD RECKONING + SOUTH PACIFIC RUM + BARBADOS RUM + AUSSIE RUM – IT’S THE RUMOLUTION, BABY!

To celebrate the inaugural Rumolution Rum Festival, we’re proud to release the official souvenir Rumolution 2025 Rum to celebrate this historic occasion. Not just any rum but a unique Dead Reckoning blend of Aussie, South Pacific and Caribbean pot and column still rums. A special blend from three of the worlds most respected and awarded rum distilleries that has been given the Dead Reckoning signature ‘Adelaide Dry Aging Treatment’ by Justin Boseley.

So, what’s in the bottle? An international blend of rums designed to give the drinker an ‘around the world of rum’ experience. Three distinct regions, with distinct styles and terroirs combining a mix of oaks and barrel types, pot and column still rums from Australia, Barbados and the South Pacific!

Australia: An extremely well-travelled and worldly 9yo Aussie component from Beenleigh pot & column still molasses-based rum. Initially created at the legendary Beenleigh Distillery (a blend of pot and column still) and tropically aged on-site for 4 years in ex-bourbon casks. It was then sold to a ‘European rum buyer’ (cough E.A. Shear) and sat in a bond-store in Amsterdam for 5 more years of continental ageing.

South Pacific: A ten-year-old, muscat cask, 100% tropically aged, single blended pot and column still rum from the legendary South Pacific Distillery in Fiji.

Barbados: The Caribbean component of this rum is a funky Foursquare single cask, triple–matured, pure rum, no less than Ten years old. His cask held a mix of Foursquare pot and column distilled spirit – tropically matured in Barbados for 8 years in ex-bourbon then transported to Adelaide for ‘the Boseley treatment’. This consisted of 2 years in a 60-year-old Seppeltsfield Winery ex-Tawny.

The end result is a blend that gives a collective nod to the major rum flavours in the world. Caramels and liquorice, big fruits and some sweet, sweet Caribbean funk alongside the vanilla, biscuit spices, peppery notes and citrus influences from the different oaks.

Our Tasting Notes

Nose: The distinct terroirs coming through on the nose are awesome – Aussie liquorice and leather notes with Fiji dried dates and prunes and a distinct Jamaican ‘Foursquare funk’ element.

Palate: Rich and viscous (notably long legs on the glass too). Ripe soft plums, some mixed peel, Arnott’s spicy fruit roll biccies with caramel drizzle and some of mum’s custard on the side.

Finish: There’s a note of sweet unburnt cigar tobacco as the finish starts. The column still components of this blend really come out here for me as the finish becomes crisp and dry as it fades.

This is an all-round easy drinking rum – just as I hoped it would be. Bloody easy to drink neat, with much to discover and chat about – interesting trying to pick out what comes from where (in the flavours). But just as easy going in a rum and coke or (if you’re prepared to put the effort in) a classic daquiri (those Barbados funky notes really add depth to a daiquiri)!