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The nose is full of tropical notes as fresh sugar cane and banana balanced by a hint of earthy funk and rounded with a natural sweetness of mollases. The intersection of Ron Colon Blue and Banana create a beautiful bouquet of flavors, upfront roasted cacao followed by both fresh and caramelized banana finishing with a touch of heat and pot still funk.
The initial inspiration for this creation came from seeing the red banana trees growing on the Jags Head Coffee Farms in El Salvador. The large leaves give shade to the fragile coffee cherries. The bananas are soft and have a sweet flavour when ripe. Some say they taste like a regular banana, but with a hint of raspberry sweetness. Others find it a cross between a plantain and yellow banana.
This rum is a blend of RCS Dark Aged Rum mixed with a maceration and distillate of dried bananas and fresh banana peels. We added sugarcane syrup to finish it off.