El Dorado Versailles Single Still Cask Strength 12 Year Rum

The Versailles still completes El Dorado's heritage trio — a single wooden pot still originally built at the Versailles estate on the west bank of the Demerara River, dating to the 18th century, and one of only three surviving wooden stills in the world, all now housed together at Diamond Distillery in Guyana. Where Port Mourant's double pot still produces dense licorice funk and Enmore's wooden Coffey still runs woody and dry, Versailles sits between them: a single pot still marque known for a smoky, savory, slightly leaner profile with real depth. This release is aged 12 years in ex-bourbon oak entirely in Guyana's tropical climate, bottled at cask strength (around 55-57% depending on batch), non-chill filtered, natural color, no additives. Expect molasses, dark chocolate, and burnt sugar on the nose with a distinct smoky edge, opening into a warm palate of cocoa, dried fruit, oak char, and gentle spice, finishing smoky and long. Reviewers generally rank it third among the three cask strength single stills behind Port Mourant and Enmore, though several prefer it outright — the trio genuinely divides people, which is the whole point of bottling them separately. Best enjoyed neat or over a single large cube.

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