Producer: Worthy Park
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Great Shearwater Jamaica 13yr 2011
Though it doesn’t say so on the bottle, this is Worthy Park distillate. The marque given on the bottle, “JMWP,” has been connected to the distillery’s marque WPM, which has a reported ester count between 120-239 gr/hlpa.
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Worthy Park 2005: Redacted Bros. and Habitation Velier
Worthy Park Estate has been around since 1670. Though it produced rum intermittently between 1740 and 1962, it ceased production following World War II due to an oversupply of Jamaican rum (is there really such a thing?).
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Hamilton Bar Staples: 86 Demerara and Jamaican Pot Still Black
Let’s take a break from the niche, high strength, enthusiast-oriented rums and try out a couple bottles I tend to keep on hand from Ed Hamilton’s lineup.
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Worthy Park Single Barrel Series 2017 (WPE)
Background With the success of Velier’s unaged Worthy Park releases, it was only a matter of time before we got an aged expression of WPE. This official bottling of WPE was pot distilled from molasses in 2017, tropically aged for four years in ex-bourbon, and sold by K&L Wines at a cask strength of 65%.…
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Habitation Velier Worthy Park 2007 (WPL)
Background Before Worthy Park began bottling its own single barrel rums, the only way to get old, high strength Worthy Park was via independent bottlers, chief among whom was Velier. One such bottling of theirs was a WPL from 2007, which recently enjoyed a little renaissance from the distribution of old stock discovered in a…