Kōloa Kaua'i Dark Rum is the expression that put Hawaii's pioneering rum distillery on the international map — a Gold Medal winner at the RumXP International Tasting Competition at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival in its very first year of production, a stunning debut for a distillery that had only received its license months earlier. Made with crystallized brown sugar from tall cane Hawaiian-grown sugarcane that is hand harvested and crushed in the field — the juice collected in a tank and brought straight to the distillery, as fresh as sugarcane can be — then twice distilled in a vintage 1,210-gallon copper pot still and cut with pure mountain rainwater from Mount Wai'ale'ale slowly filtered through volcanic strata. Not in the style of dark rums that knock you over with overwhelmingly strong flavors and spices — instead easy to sip, the gentle spiciness working very well in cocktails. The nose delivers vanilla, cream, and brown sugar, while the palate brings molasses and dried fruit building to a vanilla cream peak, fading with dark chocolate and a dry bittersweet finish with welcome heat. If you like Gosling's Family Reserve, you'll appreciate this one. Buy Kōloa Kauaʻi Dark Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.

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