Sold outDec 2023In short · Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo) (Panama), 19 years.
“The pirate ship was heavily laden with a hoard of old oak casks filled with fig syrup, balsamic glaze and sweet chilli sauce.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R9.12 is a single cask of Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo), in Panama, 19 years old, bottled at 59.4%, released in the Dec 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.