Our Solera Aged Rum finished rye whiskey started as an experiment with 5+ year rums from Trinidad, Venezuela, and Jamaica alongside a number of recently dumped bourbon casks. After dumping the aged rum we decided to employ the Solera aging method, a technique for blending and aging from the old world to create a rum cask rye whiskey. Spicy rye and fruity rums are a natural complement-think Caribbean spice cake. Unlike the Bourbon finished in Sherry and Cognac casks where we manipulate and play with the blend throughout the process, Doc Swinson's Rye Whiskey finished in Rum cask Soleras is only influenced before the solera process, what is bottled is straight from the solera. Notes of light oak, drizzled caramel, velvet tides of fig, poached pears with cinnamon, a hint of anise, followed by long grassy cane sugar.