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Cockspur 5 Star Fine rum

Cockspur 5 Star Fine

Barbados | Gold | 37.5% ABV

Cockspur 5 Star is a golden combination of column and pot-stilled rums matured in American white oak barrels before blending. Coral-filtered water is used from a nearby aquifer to dilute the rum to bottle strength.

The company Cockspur was founded in 1884 by Danish seaman Valdemar Hanschell. Barbados was chosen as a location beccause at the time it was one of the Caribbean's largest shipping ports.

6.0/10
68 ratings
Easily consumable in a bind
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68 Cockspur 5 Star Fine Ratings

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Michael Evans 🇬🇧 | 83 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Looks very cheap and can be found in most supermarkets so I've avoided this rum but finally tried it recently and its really not that bad. Not too much flavour but relatively smooth.

Mephisto 🇩🇪 | 39 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

Nearly no nose perceptible, weak taste in addition. Maybe good for mixing, because there is no annoying taste and the rum is soft.

Paul B 🇺🇸 | 472 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

It has been about 30 years since I tried this dry rum from Barbados, probably because I have always preferred sweetened rums up until now. I had also refused to buy any rum with a name like Mount Gay until recently. This one has little or no added sugar. Heavily sweetened rums are not only bad for one's health, but they don't hold their flavor for more than 3-4 months. I finally broke down and bought this bottle after seeing it on the shelves for months. Checking here first for any really bad reviews also convinced me to give it one more try.

What a pleasant surprise this one is! The aroma is of vanilla, tropical fruits, and a faint whiff of nutmeg. The taste is even more pronounced than the aroma without being overwhelming, and it almost can be sipped neat with a natural sweetness. There are no oak flavors from barrels. I chose to add a few cubes of ice made from Icelandic Glacier Water because glacier ice seems to mellow out any bad flavors in rums. At only $17 per bottle, I will continue to buy this one. Why have I waited so long to go back to this old friend!

Update March 18, 2020: I must have gotten a bad bottle this time and I wound up ranking it lower than Cruzan Gold and lowering my rating from a 7 to a 6. What have they done to this one?!!!!

Jonathan 🇺🇸 | 4 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

Something about the bottle, and then opening it up and tasting it, I thought I didn’t like it, wouldn’t like it, but as I’ve mixed with it, a complexity and playfulness I wasn’t expecting started to show through.

Graydon 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

Sherry, Sweet, Spicy, smooth.
I enjoy neat or mixed.

Bob 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted 6 years ago

Wow, to start off with.

I'm not 60. I don't regularly buy $100+ bottles of liquor. I don't have tons of experience, but I have a fair amount. I hop around brands constantly and I think I've only repeat purchased one brand at this point, I've bought 2 bottles of Captain Morgan in my life, when I was younger. Everything else has been a new purchase for me because I love exploring brands.

Well, this review is about the rum, not myself, I just wanted to get that out of the way. This rum is the only liquor I've ever been able to tolerate neat. I don't drink it that way regularly but I try it with each bottle of liquor once or twice to get an idea of how horribly offending it is to the mouth. So far there was nothing I drank straight that made me think "I could see myself consuming this neat regularly", incredibly it came in the form of a $15 bottle of rum.

It might help that I always imagine my vacations when I was much younger in the caribbean when I drink rum, but Cockspur Fine is extremely drinkable regardless. That said, it doesn't get a 10/10 because it's not huge on flavor. It's a little sweet and of course just plain "tastes like rum", if that makes sense. But it has no big, bold, special flavors like other rums I've tried, which is perfectly fine in my opinion.

The harsh alcohol burn is almost non existent in this one, and that's high praise from me considering even higher ABV beer starts to burn my tongue significantly and unpleasantly.

John 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

I first had this rum in Barbados in 1987. I was my first rum. I like the color, the aroma is a bit too much alcohol but the taste is fine. I can have several in an evening,but usually mixed. If I have a cigar, I usually have the 12 year

Mark 🇨🇦 | 11 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

Very smooth. Flavorful without a harsh finish. Excellent mixer and sipps with the best

Trevor 🇨🇦 | 10 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Nice flavour, mixes well, better than most on a similar budget. Won't offend most if received as a gift. Very drinkable.

Andy 🇬🇧 | 11 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Not a bad mixer rum for the price, which is very cheap

Tom 🇺🇸 | 230 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Light amber color, some heat, not overly complex and the flavors don't pop out at you. A fair price for a mixer from Barbados. Better than most rums comparable in price. I like that Cockspur uses both the traditional column and pot stills to distill their rums.




Brand Details

Name: 5 Star Fine
ABV: 37.5%
Type: Cockspur
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No

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