The newest addition to Appleton Estate’s regular lineup, this is named as anhomage to the Black River of Jamaicas Nassau Valley, which supplies the limestone-filtered water used to create all of the distillerys products.

It’s a blend of rums, both pot and column still, aged for at least 15 years in the tropical heat of Jamaica. Nuanced, flavorful, and intensely aromatic, notes of toasted almond and hazelnut open it, with flavors of burnt orange peel, molasses, vanilla, allspice, clove, candied ginger, cooked banana, and roasted coffee following. Bottled at 43% abv.