Bedford Park 9 Year Old Jamaican Single Barrel Rum
Bedford Park 9 Year Old Jamaican Single Barrel Rum is a single-barrel Jamaican rum from independent bottler Bedford Park, distilled at Worthy Park in 2015 and bottled in 2025 at cask strength, 60.8% ABV (121.6 proof), in a 700mL bottle. The spirit is Worthy Park’s medium marque, WPM, matured with full continental aging in once-used bourbon barrel No. 4 and bottled just short of its tenth anniversary — 246 bottles, non-chill filtered with no additives. The label keeps the distillery to its initials, “WP”; the importer, Raising Glasses, names it in full. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- Proof / ABV: 121.6 proof (60.8% ABV), cask strength
- Size: 700mL
- Age: 9 years — distilled 2015, bottled 2025
- Distillery: Worthy Park, Jamaica (WPM medium marque)
- Cask: Once-used bourbon barrel No. 4; 246 bottles; non-chill filtered, no additives
- Origin: Jamaica
The Sweet Spot, From Worthy Park
Worthy Park, in the Lluidas Vale, is Jamaica’s single-estate rum distillery — cane grown, fermented, pot distilled and aged on one estate — and its WPM medium marque balances real ester character against approachability. Raising Glasses describe this cask as an outstanding and balanced rum that integrates the bourbon cask with the spirit, approachable for drinkers new to rum with layers of complexity underneath: nine years is the sweet spot where oak integration is real but the pot still funk still leads. Bedford Park’s Jamaican single casks consistently score in the high 8s and 9s with the RumX community, and this is the most affordable entry into the program. Browse it alongside the rest of our rum range.
Tasting Notes
A vivid nose of overripe banana, pineapple and tropical fruit with unmistakable hogo. The palate is dense and oily, esters meeting caramel, vanilla, dried fruit and toasted wood, finishing long, dry and spicy with a lingering fruit-and-funk fade.
How to Enjoy
Neat with a splash of water to open it, or in a Mai Tai you will remember. Find the rest of the build among our cocktail ingredients, and more Jamaican pot still pours across our spirits shelves.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does WPM mean?
Worthy Park Medium — the estate’s medium-ester marque, between its lighter and highest-ester styles. The label abbreviates the distillery to “a Jamaican (WP) Distillery”; importer Raising Glasses list it as Worthy Park WPM 2015 in full.
How was it aged?
Full continental maturation in once-used bourbon barrel No. 4, bottled in 2025 just short of ten years — a single barrel of 246 bottles.
How strong and how big?
60.8% ABV (121.6 proof) at natural cask strength, non-chill filtered, no additives, in a 700mL bottle.
Shop Bedford Park 9 Year Old Jamaican Single Barrel Rum at Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA — Worthy Park at the nine-year sweet spot.