Alambique Serrano 3 Años 3rd Edition Single Origin Rum

Alambique Serrano 3 Años 3rd Edition is best savored neat or with a single large ice cube.

Nose: Warm buttered toast leads the way, quickly followed by ripe banana bread and golden raisins.

Palate: Dried apricots and plums come forward first, rich and concentrated without being heavy. Cinnamon roll sweetness follows — that combination of warm spice and soft dough balanced by honey and a savory hint of rosemary.

Finish: Medium-long, with lingering dried fruit, warm baking spices, and a subtle earthiness likely a nod to the Oaxacan terroir and the Java cane variety used in production.

Alambique Serrano 3 Años 3rd Edition is a six-cask blend of Krassel Still and Pot Still rums distilled from naturally fermented Java varietal cane juice harvested from the steep hillsides of Santa Maria Tlalixtac, Oaxaca then aged between 39 and 47 months across a combination of French oak ex-cognac casks and American oak ex-bourbon barrels, with no added sugar or coloring.

• The sugarcane used to make Alambique Serrano 3 Años isn't grown on flat, sun-soaked plantation land it's harvested from steep hillsides in the mountains of Oaxaca, the same rugged Mexican state famous for mezcal. That dramatic terrain forces the Java varietal cane to work harder to grow, concentrating its sugars and character in ways that flatland farming simply can't replicate.
• This rum is fermented using wild, ambient yeast meaning no commercial yeast packets, no lab cultures, just whatever naturally lives in the air and environment around the distillery in Santa Maria Tlalixtac. It's the same philosophy behind sourdough bread and traditional lambic beer, and it means every batch carries a flavor fingerprint that's literally impossible to reproduce anywhere else on earth.
• Alambique Serrano uses a Krassel Still, a hybrid distillation vessel so rare that the distillery is named after it "alambique" is Spanish for still. The Krassel sits somewhere between a pot still and a column still in terms of what it produces, and blending its output with traditional pot still rum is part of what gives the 3 Años its layered, one-of-a-kind character. You'd be hard-pressed to find another rum on the market built around this piece of equipment.