Pretty harvest gold hue. Ripe, elegant aroma, brimming with scents of light spice, brown sugar, molasses, and buttered toast. Simply delicious right from rich, toasty palate entry through midpalate that features flavors of wheat-bread toast, honey and refined sugar. True connoisseur"s rum that is reliable, luscious and ideally balanced..Wine EnthusiastAppleton Estate V/X Jamaica Rum is an exceptional blend of estate rums- the result of nature"s best Sugar cane grown and ripened on the estate; pure spring water filtered by nature as it percolates underground for miles through the Cockpit Country; and a special natural yeast found in Appleton sugar cane.Appleton Estate V/X Jamaica Rum is a blend of several marks of rum, but the heart of the blend is slowly distilled in small batches in the Company"s old copper pot stills. Once distilled, the rums are aged in small oak barrels. Finally the Master Blender combines the rums of the various marks and ages in large vats. After a period o