Bedford Park 24 Year Old Barbados Single Barrel Rum 2001
Bedford Park 24 Year Old Barbados Single Barrel Rum 2001 is a single-cask Barbados rum from Toronto independent bottler Bedford Park, bottled in the United States by importer Raising Glasses — a 2001 distillate from the island’s historic Saint Michael distillery (the bottler’s importer names the cask as Mount Gay), aged 24 years in once-used bourbon barrel No. 10 and bottled in 2025 at cask strength, 49.4% ABV, in a 700mL bottle. The outturn is 256 bottles, non-chill filtered with no additives. It is the oldest Bajan rum Bedford Park has released. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- Proof / ABV: 98.8 proof (49.4% ABV), cask strength
- Size: 700mL
- Age / Vintage: 24 years — distilled 2001, bottled 2025
- Cask: Single once-used bourbon barrel No. 10; 1 of 256 bottles; non-chill filtered, no additives
- Origin: Barbados
The Oldest Bajan Cask Bedford Park Has Bottled
Bedford Park selects single casks from storied distilleries — Hampden, Foursquare, Caroni — and bottles them at cask strength under label art commissioned per release; this cask’s art is by Kath Lobo. The distillery is left unnamed on the label, as Bedford Park prefers, but the importer identifies the spirit as Mount Gay — Barbados’ oldest rum house — and RumX catalogues the bottling at 8.6/10. A quarter century in a once-used bourbon barrel gives an older, more oak-led house style than younger Bajan rum, with pot and column character married deep into the wood. Explore more long-aged casks in our rum collection and across spirits.
Tasting Notes
Honeyed oak and toasted coconut lead, with dried apricot and fig, vanilla and almond, and a thread of cedar cigar box. The finish is long, elegant and gently spiced — none of the harshness cask strength might suggest after 24 years of integration.
How to Enjoy
Neat, rested in the glass — a rum this old has earned the quiet. A few drops of water open the dried fruit. Find glassware companions and more collector bottles among our cocktail ingredients and the full rum shelves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which distillery made it?
The label leaves the distillery unnamed — a Saint Michael, Barbados house — and the importer, Raising Glasses, identifies the cask as Mount Gay, distilled in 2001.
How many bottles exist?
256, from the single once-used bourbon barrel No. 10, bottled at natural cask strength of 49.4% ABV with no additives and no chill filtration.
How big is the bottle?
700mL — Bedford Park’s standard format for its single-barrel releases.
Order Bedford Park 24 Year Old Barbados at Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA — a quarter-century Bajan cask, one of 256 bottles.