Review: Planteray Cut & Dry Coconut Rum
Planteray Cut & Dry Coconut Rum is the first rum to be released under the new Planteray Rum name. The former Plantation brand name had negative connotations associated with the term “plantation”. Planteray Coconut Rum is distilled and infused with coconut flesh at West Indies Rum Distillery on the west coast of Barbados. After four years of experimentation where they tried coconut juice, jelly, fresh coconut, and dried shells they found coconuts picked fully ripe from local coconut farms then cut into small chunks and left to dry before infusing in the barrel aged rum base worked best. One whole coconut is required to produce each bottle of Planteray Cut & Dry Coconut Rum. In case you wondered, a coconut tree yields about 45 coconuts per year. The aroma leads with toasted coconut and molasses. Additional time brings out cinnamon, chocolate, and roasted almond. The sweet brown sugar, and coconut entry is joined by cinnamon and oak. It fades with cinnamon, citrus, and molasses and finishes with orange peel, caramel, coconut flake, milk chocolate, and almond cookie.
Made in Barbados
40% Alcohol
Score: 91
Award: Gold Medal