Vanilla & caramel
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Plantation 5YO Barbados

Name: Plantation 5YO Barbados 700ml
SKU: 120532
Price: 69.99 NZD
Availability: OutOfStock

Rum · Barbados · 700ml · 37.5%

$69.99each

What it tastes like

Caramel · vanilla · tropical fruit

Plantation 5 Year Old Barbados Rum 700ml features a carefully aged Caribbean rum matured in oak barrels. This smooth rum delivers caramel, vanilla and tropical fruit notes with layered complexity, ideal for sipping or premium rum cocktails.

Vanilla & caramel
Oak

Additional information

Rum
Style: Barbados
Origin: 700ml
Size: 37.5% ABV
Alcohol: 2.1 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Plantation 5YO Barbados

Plantation 5 Year Old Barbados is the rum now sold as Planteray 5 Year Old Barbados. Maison Ferrand, the independent French house behind Pierre Ferrand cognac, announced the new name on 9 January 2024, after first promising a change in 2020. The company said it understood that the word plantation brings painful history to mind. The rum itself is unchanged and is still made in Barbados.

It is a blend of Barbados pot still and column still rums. It is aged in Barbados, then re-casked and finished in France in ex-cognac casks at Ferrand. A little sugar is added at the end, a step the maker calls dosage, a term borrowed from cognac and champagne. It is bottled at 40%. Ferrand has owned the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados since 2017.

Expect caramel, cooked apple and spiced vanilla, with a hint of tobacco and smoke, and a chocolatey finish. It is good neat or over ice, and it holds up in classic cocktails such as the Mai Tai.