Sold outSep 2025In short · Demerara Distillers (El Dorado) (Guyana), 18 years.
“We imagined walking into an antique shop and opening an old sea chest which probably sat in the far corner for many years with nobody paying it any attention.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R2.21 is a single cask of Demerara Distillers (El Dorado), in Guyana, 18 years old, bottled at 63.1%, released in the Sep 2025 Outturn. 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.