Tasting note

Named for a wooden schooner famed for smuggling rum during Prohibition, this amber rum has a relatively light feel for a spirit aged a full 12 years. Flavors and aromas run to hazelnut, cookie dough, brown sugar and vanilla, pepped up with dark chocolate and espresso. Presented in a rotund 'onion' bottle modeled after an 18th-century design. Score - 95. (Kara Newman, Wine Enthusiast, Aug. 2013)

Rich aamber color; lush vanilla, sugarcane and wood nose; toasted, elegant and dense with lovely flavors of rich vanilla, dried citrus and enticing spice with just the right amount of heat.