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.
Be the first to comment.
Leave a comment
Cihuatán Sahumerio Limited Edition Rum
Cihuatán
Sahumerio is Cihuatán's most ambitious expression—a rum that captures the meditative warmth of incense and firelight in liquid form. Its layered complexity and higher proof make it a contemplative sipper that rewards patience and speaks volumes before words do. A genuinely distinctive Central American aged rum that deserves wider recognition.
St. George California Agricole Rum
St. George Spirits
St. George California Agricole is a masterclass in restraint — a rum that finds its voice by stripping away everything unnecessary and letting fresh California sugarcane speak for itself. It demonstrates that constraint in production yields extraordinary clarity of flavor. A singular American expression that stands proudly alongside the finest rhum agricole blancs of the Caribbean.
El Amparo Rum
El Amparo
El Amparo is a quiet revelation — a Venezuelan rum that rewards patience and the simple act of letting the glass breathe. Its interplay of sweet and dry, tropical and earthy, makes it an ideal contemplative sipper that perfectly embodies how air shapes everything between barrel and glass.
Long Pond Special Edition ITP 15yr Old Jamaican Rum
Long Pond
This 15-year-old Long Pond ITP marque delivers a masterful balance of Jamaican character and aged refinement. The extended maturation has smoothed the pot still funk into a harmonious interplay of tropical fruit, dark sweets, and spice — a rum that feels like the final harvest of warmth before winter descends. An exceptional sipper for contemplative November evenings.