Made from freshly harvested sugar cane which is then crushed, fermented, distilled, aged and bottled on site in limited batches. Premium Reserve, a uniquely elegant sipping rum, is Tapanga's flagship five-year barrel aged Rhum Agricole. Bottled at 43%. (Bottle size 500ml)

Nose: Soft vanilla and cherry.

Palate: Dried fruits with a hint of citrus.

Finish: A long fruit finish.

A play on the word panga, the knife used to harvest sugar cane, Tapanga is a single estate product, grown and distilled on a sugar cane farm in the Gingindlovu district in Kwazulu Natal. The first distillery in South Africa to produce Rhum Agricole, a French term for sugar cane juice rum, a style of rum originally distilled in the French Caribbean islands from freshly squeezed sugar cane juice rather than molasses.