Cotton & Reed Distillery

Up next on the Three-Day Weekend Three-Rum Release agenda:⁠
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QUEEN'S SHARE RUM

Rum nerds, assemble!

Normal people, a brief primer. What is Queen's Share? Batch distillation generally results in the collection of three different liquids:

1. Heads: The most volatile stuff. Contains a bunch of compounds that are much worse for you than ethanol. We don't let this into our products.

2. Hearts: The bulk of the distillate. Mostly ethanol. When you drink our rum, it's pretty much hearts that we proof down, age, flavor... whatever the case may be.

3. Tails: The heaviest stuff. Contains some ethanol, some nasty compounds, and some of the richest, rummiest, heaviest flavors and oiliest textures.

Queen's Share is the rum term for re-distilling the tails in order to capture the rich flavors and aromas in there, separating them from the undesirable elements of tails. It's kind of the rummiest rum.

After two years in a used bourbon barrel, this Queen's Share Rum is ready to rock at 54.5% Alc. / Vol. She's a sipper, she's a keeper, she's a queen.

Other than the Emu collab with Silver Lyan last year, this is our first ever Queen's Share release. Usually we use this precious juice as a blending ingredient across our other bottlings. If you all like this one, maybe we'll keep it going.

This drops on Sunday May 26, along with Mango and White Gold Rum. Preorder at link in bio.

🎤 Tap tap... 🎤 ahem...

Our White Rum just won an unprecedented 🏅PLATINUM MEDAL🏅 at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. We've won great accolades in recent years, but this one is genuinely staggering.

SFWSC is called “the Oscars of Booze” for good reason. Its judges are renowned, its medals carry some weight in the trade. When the dozens of judges tally up their blind tasting scores, spirits with average scores above a certain threshold earn Gold, scores in a lower range earn Silver, and so on. Double Gold winners receive not just a Gold-level average, but a Gold-level score from every single taster.

Platinum medal winners are those rare spirits that earn Double Gold for THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS. This means that for three consecutive years, our little DC-made domestic rum has received exceptional ratings from every single judge that tasted it.

This is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and talent of our incredible team. Thank you to every single person who contributed to this!

SFWSC's website is not cooperating with our search for precedents, but we're confident that no Platinum Medal has ever before been awarded to a White Rum category. Cotton & Reed could not find an announcement of any rum previously winning a Platinum medal at SFWSC, but Worthy Park’s Single Estate Reserve at least should have earned the award in the “Extra Aged Rum” category in 2020.