Solar Reserve 55

SR55 is our award-winning 43% Caribbean golden rum blend.

At its heart is 3-year-old traditional Jamaican rum distilled in copper pot stills, bringing tropical fruit, depth and a touch of unmistakable Jamaican funk.

We balance that with carefully selected 3, 5 and 8-year-old Dominican Republic rums, produced from locally grown sugarcane using both fresh cane juice and molasses distillates.

All are tropically aged in ex-bourbon oak before we select the components for the final blend.

Jamaican character. Dominican smoothness. Our blend.

Because they bring very different things to the glass.

Traditional Jamaican pot-still rum gives SR55 its tropical fruit, energy and gentle funk.

The aged Dominican Republic rums bring smoothness, vanilla, caramel, mellow oak and balance.

Put them together and you get a rum with enough character for a Daiquiri or Mai Tai, but enough polish to enjoy neat.

Our Jamaican component is a 3-year-old molasses-based rum made from locally grown sugarcane and distilled in traditional copper pot stills.

Pot distillation retains plenty of the aromatic character created during fermentation, giving the rum notes of ripe tropical fruit, banana, pineapple and that famous Jamaican funk.

We use enough to give SR55 character without turning it into an ester bomb.

Different ages bring different layers.

The younger components keep freshness, fruit and distillery character.

The older rums develop more vanilla, caramel, toasted coconut, spice and mellow oak.

By carefully selecting 3, 5 and 8-year-old components, we can build complexity rather than simply chasing the biggest age number possible.

Both.

SR55 brings together traditional molasses-based rum with Dominican cane-juice and molasses distillates.

Different raw materials and distillation styles give us different flavours to work with — which is exactly what makes blending interesting.

Rum people use “funk” to describe the wonderfully aromatic character associated with traditional Jamaican pot-still rum.

Think ripe banana, pineapple, tropical fruit and slightly grassy fermented-fruit notes.

SR55 has a little flick of it rather than going full funk festival.

Nope.

SR55 contains no added spices, sugar, caramel colouring or artificial flavourings.

Those vanilla, caramel, tropical fruit and spice notes are coming naturally from the rum and the oak.

We like to think of it as the step up from spiced rum — smoother, not sweeter.

It means the rum is aged where it was made — under warm Caribbean conditions.

The higher temperatures encourage more interaction between spirit and oak, developing flavour and maturity while also increasing the amount of spirit lost to evaporation.

Time moves a little faster in the Caribbean.

However you like, but its versatility is one of its biggest strengths.

Try it in a Daiquiri, Mai Tai, Rum Old Fashioned, Airmail, Rum Paloma, ginger beer or cola.

Or simply pour it over ice.

It’s rum. We don’t need to make this too complicated.