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Appleton Estate-21 Yr
Appleton EstateSpiritsRum
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Excellent, and priced like it. Top-third reviews at a top-third price. RumX drinkers give it 8/10 across 239 ratings, vs. 7.1/10 for the typical rum (730 rated). The Fat Rum Pirate gives it 5/5, vs. 4/5 for the typical rum (921 rated).
Appleton Estate 21 Year Old is a luxury aged Jamaican rum produced at the Appleton Estate distillery in the Nassau Valley, in production since 1749. Blended by Master Blender Joy Spence from hand-selected pot and column still rums aged a minimum of 21 years in ex-bourbon American oak barrels under Jamaica's tropical climate, it offers notes of deep vanilla, orange peel, nutmeg, almond, warm coffee and cocoa.
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Control states post one official price per bottle (750 ml). These come from the published state price lists, so each number is the real shelf price statewide. As of September 1, 2026.
- AlabamaAL ABC · item #A004427$154.99
- IowaIowa ABD · item #902623$131.25
- MichiganMichigan LCC · item #30909$174.99
Cross-state typical price: $154.99.
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