Brugal Papa Andres

First of all, many thanks to Joola69 for sharing this VERY expensive bottle with me (~$1500) as part of a rare rum exchange.

This is a very nice rum. I prefer it to the Brugal Siglo de Oro, and if you like that one, I suspect you'll love this.

But it costs 25x more than the Brugal Leyenda, which I liked even more.

Very smooth at 40%abv, and super easy drinking, but a bit dry for my liking.

Again, very easy to drink. Smells and tastes of vanilla, oak, leather, tobacco, molasses, and raisins. A very good rum, but not quite worth the money (to me).

Enjoyed some Brugal Papa Andres while in St Louis. Unique bright yellow case surrounding the bottle. Includes a very childish booklet. Very nice flower theme carved on the bottle itself. Separate cork with a similar flower theme. The numbered bottle is on the booklet and not on the bottle itself. Golden amber color. Deep oak, leather and plenty of dried fruits and more sherries to the nose and palate when neat sipped. Surprisingly dry burn at the end. Strong eight for sure, but nowhere close to a ten in my books.

Detailed scoring analysis:
10/100 Packaging, bottle and label design 10
10/100 Color of this rum 10
15/100 Nose test 11
20/100 Palate test 16
15/100 Afterburn of this rum 12
15/100 Availability to purchase this rum 1
15/100 Ultimate value for money 1
Total score 61

What can I say. €100 for 4cl. And my word it was worth it. I don’t have the words to discribe how good it was. If you can try it try it because it’s like no rum I’ve tasted befor.

Notes of caramel, raisins, oak, chocolate. Very smooth with no burn, goes down like water. Worth every penny

Definido por los grandes conocedores del mundo de los destilados como una verdadera joya, Papá Andrés Edición Alegría fue mezclado por Jassil Villanueva Quintana, la única maestra ronera que ha tenido la familia Brugal en 127 años de trayectoria. Javier Mariscal, uno de los genios del diseño contemporáneo decoró la botella y diseñó el empaque especial.

El decanter de la nueva edición de Papá Andrés fue pintado a mano por artesanos de Puerto Plata, el lugar de origen del legado de Brugal y donde se encuentran sus bodegas, unas de las más grandes del mundo.
es para mi concepto el maximo de cuba pero con su caracter dominicano unico de sabor complejo y notas en nariz y boca como pocos y su precio en nada por encerrar la historia dominica en cada botella

The sad thing about this rum, is not that it is bad. But that fact that you might a well buy the regular Anejo. Obviously there are slight differences, but not enough to justify the price. Dissapointing