With the core rum drinking season upon us, Love Drinks has ferried in the latest innovation from Goslings called Spirited Seas, which will be showcased at Imbibe next week.
Spirited Seas is an innovative new rum, aged while travelling 59,920 miles at sea. The voyage begins with the filling of vintage bourbon barrels with a superior blend of high-class, aged, dark Bermuda rums.
The barrels are then loaded onto a vessel and the rum ages for another year at sea, travelling back and forth from Bermuda to the mid-Atlantic. The stormy seas and air have an extraordinary effect on the blend. The rum interacts with the charred American white oak over every wave, extracting all the barrel’s flavour.
The result is an elegant and complex rum with an oaky nose, hints of salted caramel, luscious spice and a silky-smooth finish. The one-of-a-kind rum is available to the hospitality sector immediately via Love Drinks in 70cl bottles (44% abv).
Samantha Burke, Managing Director of Love Drinks, commented:
“Thanks to the spirited seas in 1806, Englishman James Goslings and his £10,000 worth of goods couldn’t make it to America and instead docked at the nearest port: St George’s, Bermuda. That’s when the Goslings rum story began so this latest launch pays homage to the family’s history, its innovators past and present, and to those spirited seas that surround Bermuda. A high-class, one-of-a-kind rum, which we expect to be a big hit.”
About Goslings Rum
In 1806, Englishman James Goslings set sail on The Mercury bound for America with £10,000 worth of goods. Due to becalmed seas, the ship’s charter expired and James put in at the nearest British port: St. George’s, Bermuda. Identifying the opportunity to sell wines and spirits on the island, James decided to set up shop in Bermuda and the Gosling family has been there ever since.
In the 1850s, after much experimental blending, a distinctive black rum was offered for sale. Smooth and flavourful, at first it was simply called “Old Rum” and until the First World War, it was sold straight from the barrel. Eventually, Old Rum was sold in Champagne bottles reclaimed from the British Officer’s Mess, with corks ‘sealed’ in black wax. Hence the name, “Black Seal Rum”.
Goslings is Bermuda’s oldest business and is currently run by the seventh generation of the Gosling family.
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