Sold outFeb 2023In short · Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo) (Panama), 16 years.
“A wonderful all-embracing sweetness on the nose neat; rum and raisin, mango and pineapple in toffee, crème brûlée with maple syrup and a sprinkling of cinnamon.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R9.10 is a single cask of Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo), in Panama, 16 years old, bottled at 57.9%, released in the Feb 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered R9.x is from Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo).
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
At Pesé, in Panama's Herrera province, José Varela Blanco, an immigrant from Galicia, opened the country's first sugar mill in 1908. His sons turned it towards distilling in the 1930s, and the family, now in its third generation, grows its own cane and keeps more than 120,000 casks ageing under the Ron Abuelo label, 'grandfather'. Smooth, sweet and toasty. Varela family's.