Matusalem Plantino Rum is a transparent aged rum, but with complexity and creaminess to the mouth providing an extraordinary versatility for those seeking to make Rum cocktails.
Matusalem Plantino Rum is a transparent aged rum, but with complexity and creaminess to the mouth providing an extraordinary versatility for those seeking to make Rum cocktails.
Quite subtle vanilla on the nose with a slight sweetness cutting just beneath. To taste, it is smooth with underlying oak and dried fruits, developing into more sweet vanilla notes on a dry, lingering finish.
Distilled from molasses in the Dominican Republic, Matusalem is aged in ex-bourbon barrels before being aged in an 18 months Solera, then carefully filtered using activated carbon.
Founded by Spanish brothers, Benjamin and Eduardo Camp, together with a third partner, Evaristo Álvarez, in 1872. It was the Camp brothers who brought their knowledge of the Solera system - pioneering for rum at the time.
Matusalem was born in Cuba almost 150 years ago, but following the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the company fled the country, and today their rums are now produced in the Dominican Republic.
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