Cane Island Panama 12 Year Old Single Country Rum
Cane Island · Las Cabras Distillery (blended and bottled by Cane Island, Netherlands)
A quietly confident sipper that rewards patience — proof that Panamanian rum, at full age and unhurried strength, can hold its own against louder neighbors without shouting.
Nose
Warm vanilla and toasted coconut open the glass, joined by soft banana, milk chocolate, and a whisper of pipe tobacco. Time coaxes out crème brûlée and dried apricot.
Palate
Silky and unhurried, with layers of toffee, ripe banana, and roasted almond. Mid-palate turns drier — cocoa nib, gentle oak tannin, and a lick of orange peel keep it from tipping into sweetness.
Finish
Medium-long, warming, with lingering vanilla, faint leather, and a dusting of baking spice.
- Base Ingredient
- Panamanian sugarcane molasses
- Distillation
- Column-still distillation at Las Cabras Distillery, Pesé, Panama; tropically aged 12 years in ex-bourbon American oak casks; blended and bottled without added sugar or coloring.
- Country
- Panama
Cocktail Suggestion
The Isthmus Old Fashioned — 2 oz Cane Island Panama 12; 1 barspoon demerara syrup; 2 dashes Angostura bitters; 1 dash orange bitters. Stir over a large cube for 20 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Express an orange peel over the surface and drop in.
Food Pairing
Grilled pineapple with brown-butter glaze, or a wedge of aged Manchego drizzled with dark honey.
Blended by the small Dutch house Cane Island from casks tropically aged at Las Cabras in Pesé, Panama — a distillery whose humid Central American maturation extracts in a decade what temperate cellars need a lifetime to coax.
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