Rest & Be Thankful was started by a couple of industry veterans in 2010 and has quietly sourced some of the best casks on the market for almost 20 years. This spectacular Monymusk comes from a bottling done almost five years ago, and we were lucky to snag it at this special price. Very few things can touch old Jamaican rum for complexity, and the MMW style thrives with long aging. This gorgeous cask was distilled in August 1998 and aged both tropically and continentally before bottling in 2021. It boasts a solidly high 197.8 gr/hlpa of esters and 622.1 gr/hlpa of volatile substances, meaning a medium to high level of flavor elements in the rum. It was aged entirely in used American oak and bottled without chill-filtration or additives of any kind at a natural cask strength of 59.9% and an angel's share over the course of 23 year of over 45%. After such long aging we'd expect an incredible show here and I was not disappointed. Let's see it. Color is shimmery burnished (1.1). The nose opens wide and pungent, but not too funky, instead huge tropical fruit, dense dry exotic woods and a diesel engine industrial note that makes me so very happy. The palate is dry and linear offering tart passion fruit, camphor, saffron, toasted clove and green tea. An incredible value by any measure considering where the market for old Jamaican rum has gone in the last five years, and with the added discount, this is a no-brainer for any rum lover looking to pad the collection.