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Posted
over 7 years ago
This is allways a Nice treat, sweet and lightly roasted caramel. Yummy
Posted
over 7 years ago
molasses. sweet rum.
i smell smoke and chocolate.
i taste wood. more than in the xo. some smoke. orangepeel in the back. cinnamon. chocholat. raisins and grape. some prune.
no more than 7 out of 10 points. for me its much too sweet. but if you like it, this is for you!
Posted
over 7 years ago
C'est un excellent Rhum de Rep Dom.
Préférez le moment de la fin du repas pour l'apprécier comme il se dois.
Vous allez vous régaler.
Posted
over 7 years ago
God og dejlig sød og mild rom, men den mangler lige...
Posted
over 7 years ago
Lots of banana leaves, subtle sweetness of exotic fruits and a really high class drink!
Edit: Smelled the glass 2 days later. Still smells wonderful. Bumping this to a 9!
Posted
over 7 years ago
I love everything about it. From the nice botlle. To the sweetness balance, the afterburn, the caramel, vanille, sherry taste, the price, everything !
It was the 2th best bottle of the group of four people after 20 rums. Two of us bought a botlle. 25y for 80€. At that price it's the best rum i know. When i want to convince friends to try rum this is the bottle i use. Solid 9,5 ! Right under embassador and riise ultra.
Posted
over 7 years ago
nice and smooth with a pleasant sweetness.
But it's not quite good enough to give it a 9.
Posted
over 7 years ago
Taste very well. I love it.Very soft and so smooth.
Posted
over 7 years ago
Uno de los mas ricos rones que haya bebido. Redondo en todos los sentidos.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
Excellent rum, one of our favorites. Top 5
We have tasted 30 different rums since Jan/1/16.
This party is winding down. we may try another 30 rums, but it will probably take years to do it, not 6 months.
Top five for our group of friends. Based on perceived value, personal taste, and how much rum was gone at the end of the night in each bottle when we held a tasting. Just because the most expensive bottle did not make the top 5, don't mean it wasn't great rum, just cost more than we want to pay - I can think of 10 others we tried that I would not hesitate to purchase again, but these seem to be the top picks.
Opthimus 25 year
El Dorado 15 year
Ron Centenario 25 year
Kirk & Sweeney 23 year
Vizcaya VXOP cask 21 Cuban Formula
That's a wrap - Salute! Cheers!
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sweet, easy drinking
7
/10
out of 10
Oliver y Oliver don’t distil their own rum but, according to them, acquire selected ultra fine alcohol from the best distilleries in Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and other distilleries from the French and Caribbean islands. They age, blend the different rums to be matured in Tempanillo and Bourbon barrels using the traditional Solera Method.
I was surprised to learn that they have a considerable product range. This includes the brands of Quorhum, Cubaney, Presedencial. The Opthimus range is apparently their higher quality rum.
The Opthimus range comes in a wide variety of solera ages (12, 15, 18, ,21 and 25) and also two additional finishes for the 25 year old (malt Whisky & oPorto)
I picked up the standard 25 year old. The rum comes in an unassuming chunky bottle with a written bottling series number and year which is a nice touch. Suprised to see that it isbottled at only 38% abv.
A dark mahogany brown color. Sweet smells of caramel, dark fruit, vanilla. The taste is again very sweet and similar to the nose but not lots of complexity. Good long finish with a bit of dry oak. Very morish though.
A bit pricey for an under proofed solera rum. However it does make for a very tasty and easy drinking solera rum