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Posted
1 month ago
Nice coffee aftertaste, easily going down, recommended for all levels of rum fandom.
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3 months ago
A little bit above average, basicaly I liked it. Very smooth.
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4 months ago
Caramel, clove with bitter end aroma; caramel, vanilla in start, oak barrel and blunt finish, warming tail.
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8 months ago
Right from when you uncork it you catch a rather sweet smell. Doesn't really need to air out particularly long to be a good sipper, but if you let it go for a bit you start to get more complexity to the flavor. This is towards the upper end of the Cartavio spectrum, but I'm buying it domestically, so it comes up cheap enough to use in mixes, and it's extremely good in them.
Posted
over 1 year ago
Oak and vanilla tastings, and spice
Interesting rum from Peru, my first one
Posted
over 1 year ago
Reminds Jamaica rums. No sugar, good cask, aging and dry fruits taste. Its quite dry rum and I'd say very good!
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over 1 year ago
I wasn’t expecting much from this one, but was pleasantly surprised. Strong oaky flavors straight, mixed not quite as much. Should make a good sipper
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over 1 year ago
Bright amber color. I have a strong sense of alcohol. Pleasant fruity aroma
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over 2 years ago
Mild, leicht würzig, leicht süss, gefällt mir gut, werde ich irgendwann mal wieder kaufen.
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over 2 years ago
Not too bad. It needs some time to get the smoothness. Drink it immediately after poring and it's too harsh. Wait a bit and it gets much better. Sweet enough for me.
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My first Peruvian rum
8
/10
out of 10
I ran across this one this morning and remembered that this distiller got quite a number of reviews here. I also thought that it was from Columbia as I now seem to be gravitating to rum from there. A 12 Year Old Solera Rum for $33 sounded like a good deal......until I opened it up when I got home and found out that it was not a true Caribbean rum, being from Peru. Sorry, but the flavors just cannot match any rum from the Caribbean.
The first taste was after letting it breathe for only about 10 minutes, so it initially got an unfair rating of 5. One needs to let this one breathe in the snifter for at least an hour. Then the harsh alcohol taste finally fades to let the rich flavors come out with only 8 gpl of added sugar. The flavors are still no match for the finest of Caribbean rums since this one is in a class all by itself. It just takes getting used to. Be patient with this lady and you may come to love her.
February 8, 2020: Update almost two years later when I finally got my hands on two more bottles. One reason that I write these reviews is so that I can refer back to them after not having some of these rums for a very long time. This really helped in this case. My very first sip on this one rated as a lousy 5 due to excessive ethanol. After a whole hour of letting it breathe in the snifter, it jumped up to an 8. No other rum has done such a thing.
So this time, I took a tiny sip after the first pour and was not impressed. Thirty minutes later was better. After one hour, my own initial advice really paid off. One of my college professors had told us to always keep our notes and we all quietly laughed at him. It turns out that he was right. On another note, stay clear of Cartavio XO because it is overly sugared and the flavors will only last for about a month. Sweet sugar is downright evil!