February’s Surprise Box of Spiced Rum Featuring Bone Idyll Botanical Rum

Bone Idyll, describe themselves as “city meets country, old meets new” and have a real focus on balance; the same goes for their rum. They start off with a delicious base rum, this is their aged rum blend which they also bottle and sell. It’s a three-island blend from Barbados, Guyana, and the Dominican Republic, aged up to 8 years and averaging out at 5. Described as balance in a bottle, it is a perfect mix of pot still and column still.

Their process is to put the base rum blend in the still at 50% along with fresh scotch bonnet, banana peel, lime leaves and distil it. When it comes out the still, it comes out clear so to return the colour, more of the aged rum blend is added along with water to dilute; that’s it, nothing more nothing less. What you get is a very unique spirit, despite the fresh scotch bonnet, there is no heat to the rum as the capsaicin is too heavy to go through the distillation process.