Sold outIn short · Demerara Distillers (El Dorado) (Guyana), 16 years.
“An exhilarating nose awaited us – bicycle inner tubes slathered full of mango chutney, Calvados made from browned apples, orange vitamin pills, fermented…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R2.11 is a single cask of Demerara Distillers (El Dorado), in Guyana, 16 years old, bottled at 59.1%. Every Society bottle numbered R2.x is from Demerara Distillers (El Dorado).
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At Diamond, on the east bank of the Demerara River, Demerara Distillers keeps alive the stills of Guyana's lost estates: the wooden Port Mourant vat still, said to date from 1732, the Versailles single wooden pot and the Enmore, the last wooden Coffey still in the world. From them come marks of astonishing range, from heavy and oily to light. The house brand is El Dorado. DDL's.