Teeda 21 Year Old JapaneseCraft Rum(48% ABV) 700 ML

On paper, Teeda just sounds like a cool rum. It’s distilled in Okinawa and made exclusively with Okinawan sugar cane. It’s basically a Japanese rhum agricole. 

The Helios Distillery makes Teeda in pot stills and then ages the distillate in ex-Bourbon barrels for a minimum of three years. It’s bottled at a standard strength of 40% ABV. 

I’ll discuss Helios later. For now, it’s worth knowing they started out as a rum distillery and have been doing so for over 60 years. They’re pretty big now, but I’d still classify this as craft rum. 

Specific tasting notes include banana bread, roasted plantain, fresh and toasted pineapple, Meyer lemon, lime zest, apple juice, and raisins. There’s also a lot of American oak-driven notes like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, clove, and coconut.