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SMWS R9.13: Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo)

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R9.13

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SMWS regionPanama
Age15 years
ABV64.1%
Caskrefill ex-bourbon barrel
SpiritRum
Distillery from SMWS code R9
RegionPanama

In short · Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo) (Panama), 15 years.

“This was a complex nose – Panellists mentioned coconut, pineapple and ground coffee, dark chocolate rum truffles, stollen and mashed banana with cinnamon and honey.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS

SMWS R9.13 is a single cask of Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo), in Panama, 15 years old, bottled at 64.1%. Every Society bottle numbered R9.x is from Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo).

How the price compares
At £82, this 15-year-old cost more than 2 of the 4 Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo) bottlings aged 13–16 released 2020–2025 that we hold. They ranged from £69.50 to £82.50, with a median of £77.
Shaded: their range · line: this bottleRelease prices, not adjusted for inflation

Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.

About Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo)

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.

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