10 years · Limited release

Iridium X

Ten years in the tropics at 47%. Dark sugar, tobacco leaf and dried fig over cane that still shows through. The oldest thing we bottle, and the least forgiving.

Gold, World Rum Awards 2026 · Silver 2024 · Bronze 2023

RRP $190 · 700 mL View availability at Mt Uncle

Aged releases are bottled in small numbers and allocated by Mt Uncle. To be told when Iridium X is bottled again, write to orders@mtuncle.com. Adult signature required on delivery.

Why it exists

Iridium X is a tropical barrel left twice as long as it needed to be. Ten years in a climate that pushes spirit through wood hard, at a cost in volume that a temperate warehouse never pays.

Tasting

Nose: Dried fig, dark toffee, cigar box, a green cane note underneath.
Palate: Dark sugar and tobacco leaf, oak tannin arriving late, no sweetness added to soften it.
Finish: Long and dry. Tannin and pepper rather than syrup.
Serve: Neat, at room temperature, in a tulip. One drop of water if the oak is loud.

Specification

Raw material: NQ sugarcane syrup
Still: Helga · 1500 L Arnold Holstein copper pot
Distillation: Copper pot still
Age statement: 10 years · youngest spirit
Alc/Vol: 47%
Cask: Ex-red wine, Barossa shiraz, reconditioned American oak
Volume: 700 mL
Additives: None
Distilled in: Australia · Walkamin, QLD

Provenance

Iridium X labels print a barrel number on the neck. That number resolves to a barrel record holding the fill, the cask and every draw taken across ten years. Records open as each one is verified against the original fill sheet, so the number on your bottle may not resolve yet.

How the Barrel Register works →

Casks racked and marked with fill dates in the barrel room at Walkamin — Ten years · the barrel room at Walkamin

Ten years, assessed

Time you cannot rush

A decade in the tropics is not a decade in Scotland. Every draw from these barrels was nosed, measured and written down, including the years the answer was not yet.

Explore the process →