Sold outNov 2020In short · Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo) (Panama), 14 years.
“Bottle limited to 1 per member The aromas brought a sticky glaze of burnt brown sugar and molasses that coated pork ribs and a heavy serving of rosemary before softening…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS R9.8 is a single cask of Varela Hermanos (Ron Abuelo), in Panama, 14 years old, bottled at 59.1%, released in the Nov 2020 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.