El Dorado 8 Year Old Rum: Review & Tasting Notes

About El Dorado 8 Year Old Rum

Country: Guyana
Distillery: Demerara Distillers Ltd
Still Type: Column and Pot
Type: Demerara / Molasses

ABV: 40%
Age statement: 12 Year Old
Sugar/Colouring: Yes
Price Band: £25 - £30

A blend of rums no younger than 8 years old and aged in oak bourbon casks, El Dorado 8 is the product of four stills, including Demerara Distillers' Enmore and Diamond column stills and its. Launched in 2009, it is one of Demerara Distillers' more recent releases.

In the 1700s Guyana (then comprised of 3 Dutch colonies) was home to 300 distilleries, but as small estates merged with each other, this number fell to around 180 by the second half of the 19th Century. In 1998 Demerara Distillers Ltd, producer of the El Dorado range of rums, bought up all Guyana's remaining stills and brought them together at Guyana's last remaining sugar estate - the Diamond Estate on the Demerara River.

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