Barbados 18 Year Old "Roaming Road" Ex-Bourbon Barrel Cask Strength Barbados Rum (700ml)

Roaming Road’s 18-year-old Barbados rum gets right to the heart of Mike Gilmore’s independent bottling project: find distinctive individual casks from serious producers and bottle them with enough transparency to let the selection stand on its own. Distilled at a renowned Barbados distillery from a blend of pot and column still rum, this 2025 release spent eighteen years maturing in a once-used ex-bourbon cask before being bottled at a formidable 59.8% ABV, or 119.6 proof. There are no additives, no cosmetic shortcuts and no attempt to sand down the character of the barrel. Barbados rum already carries a strong reputation with whiskey drinkers thanks to its balance of structure, ageworthiness and cask influence, and this bottling leans straight into that appeal. For anyone who has followed the rise of independent rum bottlers, Roaming Road is exactly the kind of project that keeps the category exciting: small releases, serious sourcing and casks chosen because they have something specific to say.