Description
Introducing Goslings Spirited Seas Rum, a generous gift from the wild Atlantic Ocean.. The voyage starts by filling vintage bourbon barrels with a superior blend of premium aged Bermuda rums. The barrels are loaded on to a vessel, and the rum ages for another year at sea, traveling back and forth from Bermuda to the Mid-Atlantic. The stormy seas and air have an extraordinary effect on the blend. The rum interacts with he charred American white oak over every wave, extracting all the barrel’s flavor. The result is an elegant and complex rum with an oaky, nose, hints of salted caramel and luscious spice, and a smooth finish.
A family business for over 200 years, Goslings Rum is Bermuda’s largest export product and the only company that blends and bottles rum on the island. First exported to the United States in 1980, Goslings offers five distinctive, award-winning rums: Goslings Black Seal Rum, Goslings Gold Seal Rum, Goslings 151 Proof Black Seal Rum, Goslings Family Reserve Old Rum, and Goslings Papa Seal Single Barrel Bermuda Rum. Goslings Stormy Ginger Beer, crafted specifically for use in the trademarked Goslings Dark ’n Stormy® cocktail, is the number-one selling ginger beer in the United States. Goslings also markets a ready-to-drink Dark ‘n Stormy® cocktail in a can.
In the spring of 1806 James Gosling, the oldest son of William Gosling, wine and spirits merchant, set out from England on the ship, Mercury, with £10,000 of merchandise, bound for America. After ninety one desperate days on a becalmed sea their charter ran out, and they put in at the nearest port, St. George’s, Bermuda. Rather than pressing on for America, James opened a shop on the King’s Parade, St. George’s in December 1806. In 1857, the first oak barrels of rum distillate arrived in Bermuda. After much trial and error, the distinctive Bermuda black rum destined to be Black Seal was formulated and offered for sale. The secret blend of three different rums, aged independently, was not called Black Seal at first. It was called Old Rum. In fact, up until the First World War it was only sold from the barrel, and most folks brought in their own bottles for a ‘fill up’. Eventually the black rum was sold in champagne bottles, reclaimed from the British Officer’s Mess, and the corks sealed with black sealing wax.Pretty soon people began to ask for the rum with the “Black Seal”. Many years later the idea of the little, barrel juggling “Black Seal” was born. The rest is, well, rum history.
Proof/ABV: 88
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