Mad River Maple Cask 750 ml

Mad River Maple Cask starts as Mad River Distillers' First Run demerara rum, then finishes in barrels traded with Wood's Vermont Syrup Company — casks that spent their prior life aging maple syrup and come back to the distillery carrying real maple-cured character. The result leans tropical and confectionary on the nose, with butterscotch and a smooth, balanced palate that reads more like a well-aged rum than a flavored one. It's distilled and finished entirely at the Warren, Vermont distillery, suited to drinkers who want a maple-inflected spirit without straying into overtly sweet flavored-rum territory.

How to drink Mad River Maple Cask

Good neat or over a single rock to let the butterscotch and maple show; it also holds up in a rum Old Fashioned if you want that cask character to carry through a stirred drink.

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