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El Dorado 21-Year rum

El Dorado 21-Year

Guyana | Aged

El Dorado 21 is produced near the equator in Guyana by Demerara distillery. The final product is a blend of rums, aged between 21 and 25 years and crafted using 100% locally sourced Demerara sugar. Traditional tools are used in the distilling processes including three unique wooden stills. The rums rest until maturity in 45 gallon oak casks.

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439 El Dorado 21-Year Ratings

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vomi1011 🇩🇪 | 403 ratings
Posted 4 years ago

This is a blend from the Enmore still, the coffey Diamond still and from the Port Mourant double wooden Pot still. It's incredible what you get here.
I would say it's a blend of mainly Enmore with Versailles and PM. It's a little bit too sweet, I would prefer it's natural taste. Enmore is already sweet witout additional sugar.

It's rich and a quite complex rum. It's molasses driven and intensive at just 43%. I would prefer more abv, but for the main market with many sweet rum lovers this is enough.
Taste is richer than ElD15, more complex, less sweet, with more aromas. It's very enjoyable.
But if you are a beginner go for ElD15 first, ElD21 has some more heavy aromas (wood influence -> iodine with bitter taste), maybe you will not understand this masterpeace because of that.
I would kill for a ElD21 in cask strength, such a beauty would cost more that 150€ for sure.
Enmore 1997 from Rum Nation for example costs 167€.

The nose starts like a typical Enmore rum with honey, raisins, molasses and the typical Enmore wood (oak with iodine). PM is lungering in the background. I get wood, oranges zest, a hint of anise and grasy notes. Green walnuts and dry fruits are also in the nose. You will find much more flavors there, just see my tasting notes. Damn this is good and complex.

The taste starts almost like the nose with Enmore flavors. Raisins, molasses and honey. A sweet bitter note is on my palet (green walnuts), sounds like the bitter sweet symphony and it's really is.
In the middle taste I get the orang zests with wood and herbs (sage, mint). This is the VSG -> Versailles still mark (a bottler named this mark MDXC - Main Diamond X for Versailles and Coated -> molasses coated).
The finish is middle long, there is not enough abv for a longer finish. I get some spice, liquorice, mint, burned sugar, iodine. Very tasty blend, Enmore, MDXC and PM flavors are there and in a good balance.
I would rate it with 88 points. At cask strength without sweetening we could speak about 94 points I think.

Smell: molasses (coffee), caramel, dry orange peels, herbs/grasy notes, honey, green walnut, iodine, dried fruits, burned sugar,black tea, wood. Incredible rich nose.
Taste: molasses, raisins, honey, wood, iodine, date
Middle: orange peels, walnuts, honey, caramel, sage/herbs, grasy notes, raisins
Finish (middle long): spices, liquorice, mint, burned sugar, iodine (this one has seen some old casks)
Aftertaste: honey, papaya, walnut, mint, some leather

Sweetness: 3.5/5
Spice: 2/5
Fruits: 3/5
Mildness: 3.5/5
Value (65€): 4/5
Experience level: amateur to expert

AndReginald 🇮🇹 | 57 ratings
Posted 5 months ago

In a good way. I was afraid they ruined it with too much sugar, but they did not and it is a pleasant sipper. Not worth the price maybe, but can't deny this one an 8.

pghiran 🇷🇴 | 17 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

A good rum all around, but for the price I feel it's a bit lacking. I'd much rather buy a bottle of El Dorado 12, not to mention you can buy two of them for the price. It doesn't seem smooth enough for me and my palette

Samantha 🇬🇧 | 7 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

I have yet to be wowed by an Eldorado rum. One priced at £75 you might think would achieve that but not even close.
Maybe not a "wow" drink but certainly a pleasant tipple.

Rumrun11 (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 125 ratings
Posted 6 months ago

The 21 seems to have a heavier taste than the 15 and is a little more complex but for me the sweetness is not doing it any favors as I think it takes away from what could be a truly fantastic rum. I like it but I sure am glad I did not spend the $$$$ on a bottle and instead had a large glass at the KB Pub in Longyearbyen, Norway. Sorry for poor photo but the pub is fashioned after a coal mine and is quite dark. On top of that I had a few rums so that might not have helped either

AP 🇫🇮 | 9 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

I can recommend this one, even I don't like it's been sweetened after distilling.

Rodney 🇦🇱 | 24 ratings
Posted 6 years ago

It will do didn't find it the best but it will do oh yea will do

Gerald 🇦🇹 | 21 ratings
Posted almost 10 years ago

Nose: light sweet , caramel , dry fruit ,alcoholic,wood
Taste: light sweet, spicy , caramel , alcoholic, dry fruit ,vanilla , sugar,wood.
sharper than the 12 or 15 year old one.

gbrvncz 🇭🇺 | 9 ratings
Posted 2 years ago

I drank this like 3 years ago and back than I was a real rum noobie (well, kinda still is). I haven't drank too many different rums back than, just really loved the 12 and 15 years old El Dorados, so naturally I wanted to try the 21 year old as well. What I can remember it was a bit disappointing after the two younger ones, it felt more edgier, not that smooth and maybe just too heavy sort so say. Now, after I tried at least a wider palette of different rums I maybe want to go back to this one and give another try, causer I believe this is a more complex rum that you need some maturity to really enjoy.

Lorne 🇨🇦 | 10 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Not very expensive given the age, but not nearly as smooth as one would expect either. Fair price @ $100 cdn for the bottle, but nothing to get overly excited over.




Brand Details

Name: 21-Year
Years Aged: 21
Type: El Dorado
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No

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