Don Q is releasing an ultra premium and a premium expression as a part of their 150th Year Celebration to the United Kingdom. Their 2005 Signature Release Single Barrel is the first
single-barrel expression is to be released by Don Q and is part of this limited
edition series, with only 6,000 bottles produced. Aged in American white oak barrels for 10
years, the 2005 Signature Release Single Barrel is a
departure from Don Q’s portfolio of blended rums, the company says. The
80-proof light rum has a deep woodiness with sweeter notes and an aroma of
heavy oak, leather and dried fruit. The first being the Single-Barrel 2005 expression, with 3,000 4.5-liter cases allocated to the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and the remaining 1,000 cases destined for Europe. A 2007 Single-Barrel variant will follow in 2017. Don Q Signature Release Single-Barrel Rum is 80 proof, available at select liquor stores throughout the US, and is priced at $39.99 for a 750-ml bottle.
The second release is an ultra premium expression. Only 1,865 bottles of the Gran Reserva de la Familia Serralés
were made. Puerto
Rico’s Don Q has one of the richest histories in the rum making industry. Now they are capitalizing on it with one of
the finest rums ever made. Company
founder Don Juan Serrallés founded and named his Puerto Rican Hacienda
Mercedita sugar cane plantation named for his wife, Mercedes. In 1865 he produced his first rum using fresh
sugarcane in a copper pot still imported from France. He would later name the company for Don
Quixote. Don
Q rum received global attention when bartender Ramon Marrero used it to create
a popular new cocktail he called the Piña Colada.
Now the company is making headlines again
as it celebrates 150 years of rum making with the release of the Gran Reserva de la Familia Serralés,
its their most elite bottle ever offered. Don Q is
marking the 150th anniversary
of its 1865 founding last year with the very limited-edition bottle, blending
20-year-old rums from its oldest warehouses, hand-selected by sixth-generation
distiller Roberto Serrallés. The elixir is being compared to cognac and in keeping
with the company’s birth, only 1,865 bottles will be produced, with each costing $1,865.
