An­gos­tu­ra has launched a brand new, lim­it­ed edi­tion rum that will set you back $3000USD, if you hap­pen to get your hands on it.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the House of An­gos­tu­ra has un­veiled the ul­tra-pre­mi­um rum - An­gos­tu­ra® Zenith.

On­ly 195 bot­tles of Zenith, the newest mem­ber of An­gos­tu­ra’s Pri­vate Cask Col­lec­tion, have been pro­duced glob­al­ly.

Chair­man of An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Lim­it­ed, Ter­rence Bharath said: “In keep­ing with our on­go­ing cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty ini­tia­tives, we are pleased to an­nounce that part pro­ceeds from the sale of the 195 bot­tles of Zenith will go to­wards pro­vid­ing a schol­ar­ship for a de­serv­ing young per­son to be giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to pur­sue stud­ies in mu­sic or art.

“We feel that it is our so­cial du­ty to help those un­der­priv­i­leged com­mu­ni­ties where there are per­sons who pos­sess the in­her­ent cre­ative gifts to rise above their cir­cum­stances and soar in reach­ing their goals.”

Zenith’s flavour, An­gos­tu­ra ex­plained, is de­rived from two of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most icon­ic dis­til­leries—Ca­roni 1975 Lim­it­ed and An­gos­tu­ra Lim­it­ed.

The com­pa­ny said the rum was aged in charred Amer­i­can oak casks that were once used for bour­bon, al­low­ing for the com­bined flavours of sweet and smoky depths, de­liv­er­ing a fine char­ac­ter with a unique blend of An­gos­tu­ra and Ca­roni aged rums rang­ing from 20 to 23 years old.

Zenith is an es­pe­cial­ly unique ad­di­tion to the House of An­gos­tu­ra Pri­vate Cask Col­lec­tion as it fea­tured the last of the best of the leg­endary House of Ca­roni.

An­gos­tu­ra not­ed, “Es­tab­lished in 1923 on the site of the old Ca­roni sug­ar fac­to­ry, the now de­funct Ca­roni Dis­tillery pro­duced high­ly sought-af­ter rums no­table for a dis­tinc­tive heavy pro­file, rich, earthy, and smoky.

The pre­mi­um rum is pro­duced with the last of Ca­roni’s trea­sured mo­lasses, and fea­tures rich aro­mas of co­coa, oaky notes with hints of raisins on the palate and sub­tle ap­ple notes, com­plete with warm aged notes of sher­ry with a last­ing dry, crisp fin­ish—the per­fect pro­por­tions to achieve ab­solute depth and bal­ance.”

Bharath said: “Af­ter three years in de­vel­op­ment, we’re de­light­ed to ex­tend our Pri­vate Cask Col­lec­tion with the launch of An­gos­tu­ra Zenith, mak­ing our rum of­fer­ing one of the most unique in the world.

The An­gos­tu­ra Zenith is avail­able at a cost of TT$20,400 or US$3,000 at se­lect re­tail­ers.