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Dictador Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-Year rum

Dictador Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-Year

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Colombia | Aged | 40% ABV

Dictador iconic product. Dictador 20 Years Old is aged in American Oak ex-Bourbon barrels, then finished in ex-Port casks. Your rum for the special occasion. Taste it neat!

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404 Dictador Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-Year Ratings

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vomi1011 🇩🇪 | 403 ratings
Posted 4 years ago

The Dictadors have changed. The new bottle (no solera) is different to my old impressions. It's more on the cocoa side, a completely different rum.
The old version has a lot of fermented fruits like Nine Leaves 2.
Now all Dictadors are more similar to each other than the old bottlings.

This rum has a recognition value (it's pot still + column still blend). It needs 30min in the glas until it opens the aromas.
The flavor profile is honey with cocoa and spices like pepper and nutmeg. It's not sweetened.
Unusual combination, that's why it has a unique taste.
The smell is a combination of vanilla, cocoa, spices and some wood. I can not clearly separate all flavors, but I enjoy this composition.
The taste starts with a little bit cocoa, then slightly a woody note (or call it paper) shows up followed by some vanilla. It's not watery but I noticed the dilution, it's thiner of course. I would prefer 45% I think. Then I got also some dry fruits and different spices like pepper and nutmeg. They are not very dominant, you get only some hints of them.
A good rum, not very complex but unique. Would rate it with 75 points.

Smell: cocoa ***, honey, dry fruits **, some vanilla, pepper, nutmeg, some wood
Taste: cocoa, paper or wood, honey, dry fruits, vanilla, spices
Very nice aftertaste with floral notes

Country: Columbia
City: Cartagena
Material: Sugar Cane Honey ( 30% pot still / 70% column still)
Age: 20 years. Solera, but just the angels share (evaporation loss) will be filled up with younger rums (some times ago with same age rums)
Barrels: American oak barrels (bourbon)
Master Blender: Hernan Parra

Sweetness: 1.5/5
Spice: 3/5
Fruits: 3/5
Mildness: 3.5/5
Complexity: 3/5
Value (37€): 3.5/5

Jeffrey 🇺🇸 | 28 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

Love this Rum, smooth, butterscotch, sweet, full flavor, long finish... enjoy!

Brett Johnson 🇯🇵 | 34 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

Very light molasses flavor with a small bit of burn on the back.

Theodora 🇸🇮 | 113 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

I was surprised by this rum, as it is different with nuts and coffee, minimum sweet but bitter. Alcohol is very very smooth and incorporated what I liked most. Elegant conclusion.

Mati 🇵🇱 | 15 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

I started drinking rum instead of whiskey because of this rum, really good and well balanced between flavours and sweetness

Kamamura 🇨🇿 | 37 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

The appearance in the glass is the standard caramel brown color, certainly not something one would expect after long aging (although 20 years + solera system = literally whatever in a practical sense).

The nose is warm, soft, sweet, inviting, fruity, some fresh dough, and a hint of a savory note resembling bacon.

The taste is strangely sweet, and since I am informed that there is no added sugar in this rum, it must be something else - fruit extract, perhaps? Notes of ripe apricots, ginger, marmelade, tamed by really meek oak presence. The mouthfeel is oily, full, almost syrupy, the finish is medium-length and pleasantly warm.

This is certainly a pleasant sipping rum, however that syrupy,fruity, sweet note does not seem quite natural.

Stephen 🇨🇦 | 4 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Wonderful flavours. This rum is very smooth, warm and has a nice balanced Carmel flavour (not too sweet). This rum is perfect by itself and leaves you wanting another.

Eanousa 🇺🇸 | 53 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

This 'was' a great bottle. I really have enjoyed the 12 year, despite its initial chemically smell and taste, just have to let it breathe for a while, better with time.This however was excellent from the bottle, a rich, not overly sweet advancement on the 12. For a little more, you are getting a seriously premium tasting rum.

henrik pedersen 🇩🇰 | 170 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Dictador bliver nok aldrig én af mine favoritter. Syntes 20 års virker noget tynd, i forhold til alder.

8E7 🇧🇪 | 32 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

I absolutely love this one, and I get why it doesn't get a higher rating. It has a very strong, explicit smell and taste to it which many probably won't appreciate. That is the coffee aroma... I get it, but I'm also a big fan of coffee so this guy is a favorite of mine

Daniel 🇩🇰 | 26 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Maybe there’s not that much going on here, but it’s very smooth and very easy to drink. Really enjoyed it.




Brand Details

Name: Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-Year
Years Aged: 20
ABV: 40%
Type: Dictador
Raw Material: Cane Syrup
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No

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