Idle Assembly Rum is inspired by time spent in Dunmore Town on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, where one of the founders, David Flint Wood, has lived for almost thirty years, along with his wife India Hicks, friend to the Royals and bridesmaid to the late Princess Diana.
Idle Assembly is a skilled blend of rums aged between five and twenty years in white oak casks that have previously held American Bourbon and represent ‘a tour of the Caribbean in a bottle’ from the finest producers and ingredients; aged rums from Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Panama.
While maturation has taken place across the Caribbean where notes and nuances are first developed – it is the microclimate of Barranquilla that lends its heat and humidity to the ageing process, producing the character and softness of the rum.
The result is a limited production rum rooted in the traditions of Hispanic rum making. Molasses fermentation, column distillation, aged in white oak bourbon for many years in a unique microclimate. The final product, Idle Assembly Rum, is dry, oaky, smooth, and characterful, with no added sugar or colouring, gently rounding on the palate, appealing to connoisseurs and first-time rum drinkers alike. Tasting Notes Look: Amber, golden, hay Nose: Funk, grassy, orchard fruit Taste: Aged, medium body, paprika Finish: Long, toasted bread, tropical
In celebration of the hey-day of the ’50s and ’60s, when some of the most glamorous island travel was opened up by seaplanes - our two colour label reflects an almost 'un-designed' hand-made illustration of coming in to land between the reef and a palm lined beach.
And for our bottle, we mimicked a time when rum of the islands was decanted into the most commonly available vessel - the standard whisky bottle.
