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Our bold move! Your perfect finish for a meal. Extra old. Blended rum between 25-35 years old. Aged in American Oak ex-bourbon and port casks which have been re-changed in some stages of the aging process.
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Posted
9 years ago
A powerfull aroma unfolds in your nose, with notes of honney, liqourice, coffee and a hint of citrus. The palette is big bodied with a dark profile of liqourice, barrel, tobaco, roasted coffee and honney. The taste fades into a dark, semidry liqourice aftertaste and leave your mouth coated with an oily feeling. It's not bad at all, but considering the price, and the almost equally enjoyable and very cheap dictador 12, i find this to be slightly overpriced.
Posted
over 9 years ago
I bought a bottle after seeing it rated so highly by online reviews. Thought it had a taste I couldn't put my finger on. Re-read some reviews and agree it is like a butterscotch/toffee. Smooth though, no burn aftertaste.
I have less expensive rums which I think taste much better. Paid $100 US for the bottle.
Posted
5 months ago
The bottle is very nice and even has a glass cork.
That is all the positive feedback I can give about this drink.
I refuse to call this a rum! It is an abdomination and for a ridiculous price nevertheless. Because of the high rating here I decided to try a bottle. My buddy and me decided to try drinking this stuff in different ways: let it rest for 5 mins, let it rest for 30 mins, add a splash of water, add multiple splashes of water. But we both ended up throwing away what was left in our glasses. I have never threw away anything but this is really horrible.
Posted
6 months ago
We had only a small bottle to taste, but this was really good. Unfortunately it is not too cheap, but I am planning to order a full bottle.
If Rum could be a comfort food, this would be it. It is surprisingly dessert-like with a very difficult-to-find combination of smoothness, boldness, rich flavors and delicate sweets. So far, this is the least amount of burn I have tasted in a Rum. Similar in that way to selva ray green, but thicker and more flavorful. Not as refined as selva ray, but still smooth and sweet. Goes down easy. I drank two bottles by myself on vacation with no trouble at all. Absolutely delicious chilled and neat. When I do tastings for friends, I use this bottle to showcase a beautiful sweet rum and the opposite of a Barbados style. Gorgeous. The only rum I ordered 5 bottles of. Also, it is far smoother and better than the Perpetual. 9.6
Posted
11 months ago
Excellent à refaire bu avec Fré , café vanille caramel que de bonnes saveurs
Posted
1 year ago
Very smooth, lots of flavour, well balanced. Coffee aroma like the other Dictador. But the first seep is very disturbing if you re looking for a "true"rum.
Posted
1 year ago
Excellent rum, definitely premium taste for me. Simply one of the best.
This is an excellent rum for sipping. Much better than perpetual. One of the best rums I have ever tasted.
Posted
over 1 year ago
Nose - Vanilla, cacao, toffee, cognac and hints of walnuts with puding. Decently sweet smell. Aromas are blending very well. Complex smell. If you leave it in glass for longer time, it will also develop honey smell. More pleasant scent than XO perpetual (more drier) wich is often compared with this one. Really nice sophisticated scents, wow.
Palete - Vanilla, toffee in front, little bit of coffee, walnuts and anise behind. Very good finish with long aftertaste leaving walnut taste in mouth. One step sweeter than XO perpetual (dry). I am fine with both of them, but I prefer this one, because its more complex and sweetness is making it more interesting. Its not overly sweet so it does not cloak individual flavors. This one tasted more like "rum", the other one is dry chrismass walnut bomb. Both of them are really good... you can find similarities but this one is much better in my opinion. Luxurious drink.
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I had this rum as well as the Dictador Perpetual on my wish list ever since I got a bottle of their 20-year rum at Dorignac's in New Orleans. I found this bottle (and a Perpetual) at Total Wine and More in Jacksonville, FL. I am so glad I got it.
Let's get started...
First off, the color of the rum is a gorgeous mahogany..deep and rich.
Excellent legs and a most wonderful aroma in my snifter.
Then the flavor...
Out-freakin'-standing!!!
Honesty, no rum in my history of sampling tastes quite like this. I've seen the testing results and this is not a sugared rum but on the outset there is a wonderful subtle sweetness along with the closest-to-perfect vanilla/toffee flavor I have ever tasted. Further sippings give me a little cinnamon/sugar buttery toast flavor. This comes as close to a 10 as I will consider.
Burn? Not even a major warmth. This rum envelopes you in a cozy blanket in the throat. No burn. The finish is a tad dry with the vanilla/toffee flavor even more predominate but not overwhelming.
Whomever is the rum-master behind this specific rum deserves major kudos. I would love to shake his or her hand. AWESOME!!!
Mixing rum? Perish the thought!!!
This is a sipping rum through and through. Nothing else.
Next time I'm in Jacksonville, I am getting at least one more bottle to have on-hand.
If you come across a bottle of this, get it. It's worth every penny of the $100 USD. This is one of the best rums I have ever tasted.
I think I have found my new favorite rum.
Okay...for those of you asking why I didn't give it a 10, let me explain once again...
Personally speaking I cannot give any rum a 10 because I do not believe a perfect rum exists. The late great Vince Lombardi once said, "Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good."
And this rum embodies what Coach Lombardi meant.