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Guyana | Aged | 40% ABV | Pot and Column Still Distilled
El Dorado 12-Year Rum is composed of a blend of aged rums, all at least 12 years old. The rums are distilled using a combination of stills including coffey stills and a double wooden pot still before being aged in bourbon oak casks.
Demerara Distillers of Guyana produces El Dorado 12-year rum and is the country's last remaining distillery, with origins tracing back to 1670. The name ""El Dorado"" references the legendary city of gold that is said to be in the country's Rupununi region.
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over 7 years ago
The focus is on the complexity and not the "BIGNESS". Transforms your experience when you get to the last stage in late palate: mouthfeel is medium and refined. Multifaceted
To me every rum has a prominent theme. Might it be vanilla, smoke, cough syrup, etc.
In this case it is "orange". It is a very smooth liquor and it is easy to understand why so many give this product top ratings.
What I particularly like about it is also the aroma it produces in the glass. Aside from freshly peeled oranges you pick up leather and wood. It is a very pleasing experience. Much better than the "Botucal Grand Reserva" whith an even higher rating.
A very well deserved 8 - happy to have it in my hoard. To see wheter a perfect product can even be made better, I ordered the 15yr old. I will report about it very soon.
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over 7 years ago
The nose front told me that this was going to be a sharper rum with a hard edge on it. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be smooth and round! A very nice sipper just shy of syrupy sweet with a beautiful color to it.
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over 7 years ago
Without a doubt one of the best rums that £30.00 will get you, an absolute crime if you mixed it, a real sipping pleasure. The taste is sweet spice with hints of fruit and caramel. You then get a mild to medium warmth from the alcohol as you swallow. When drank neat the flavors are intense and its quite smooth and easy to drink especially if you have a sweet tooth. Ice can dilute the flavour i found so drinking it neat for me is the way to go. The only downside is you have to show restraint as you could easily drink half the bottle in a evening.
Posted
over 7 years ago
A clean and rich aftertaste mixed with a good amount of oaky flavor.
Posted
over 7 years ago
En ok rom i en flot flaske. Den bliver bedre efter et stykke tid og er ganske fin.
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over 7 years ago
I'd heard good things about this 12 year Rum, so thought I'd try it. Excellent sipping Rum
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over 7 years ago
I love Trinidad far rums that are aged. This rum has all the great notes I enjoy I. The Angostura 1824 without the heavy price tag. Drinking it neat is delicious and it also mixes really well in any drink. Very smooth, you can smell and tastes notes of molasses, caramel, and I don't know why but I also get nutmeg. Worthy of being stocked in your cabinet all year long.
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over 7 years ago
This is something I try to have always stocked in my home bar. It has the intense Demerara flavor with vanilla and spice. I don't mind sipping it, but I also use it as a mixer.
En väldigt god rom, lätt att dricka och fin balans i smaken, känns inte riktigt mogen men väldigt god
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Good sipper...
7
/10
out of 10
The smell is fruity and alcoholic...last goes away a bit after letting it breathe...but still sensable...
The taste is good with a burn at the end...the taste sticks a while around...
I tried after the 12 year old the older brother, the elderly dorado 15. Did not like it too much...it kinda stinks compared to the 12. I am surprised as well that they differ so much from each other...the taste is Ok from the 15, but the smell and taste is in my opinion way better with the younger 12.
I give the 12 a solid 7...but there are better rums out there...for example the Plantation 20th Anniversary...from the price range closer to the 15. In the same price range of the 12 ist the Ron Barco de Vargas which tastes better than the 12.
I will keep the 12 in my bar stock though.