CDI – Panama DK 13 Years #PS99 70 cl. 56,9%

Compagnie des Indes Panama 13 Years #PS99 is a single cask rum from a distillery in Panama. It is bottled exclusively for the Danish market, and is aged for 13 long years in new American oak casks. The rum is bottled at cask strength, 56.9%, but is round and charming – Compagnie des Indes even recommends rum a la this Panamanian as a good introduction to cask strength rum for the uninitiated.

Colour: Amber.
Scent: Cinnamon, mirabelle and apricot.
Tasting notes: Soft and round despite the strength, with shortbread, vanilla and ripe, red apples.

Serving suggestion: Should be enjoyed neat.

Compagnie des Indes is a so-called “independent bottler”. The company was started by the Frenchman Florent Beuchet, and draws inspiration from the British East India Company, which in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imported rare and exotic goods from all over the world to Europe. In the same way, Florent finds casks from brokers and distilleries throughout the rum world – from Florida to Jamaica, Fiji and Indonesia – and bottles them under the Compagnie des Indes brand. Many are bottled as “single casks”, but CDI also publishes well-composed blends.

For the past few years, the rest of Europe has turned enviously to Denmark when Florent serves the annual batch of exclusive, Danish single cask bottlings. These are always bottled at cask strength and without added color or sugar – something that makes the teeth of rum geeks around the world water! But you will also find sweeter and easy-drinking rums in the series of trans-Caribbean blends; e.g. Latino and Caraïbes. There is something for everyone here.