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Appleton Estate 21-Year rum

Appleton Estate 21-Year

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Jamaica | Aged

Distilled using small-batch copper pot stills uniquely designed for Appleton Estate, this rum is a blend of several rums aged 21 years in American oak barrels. Once blended, the rum is re-casked for two years to marry the flavors.

Appleton Estate 21-year rum is produced in Jamaica on one of the country’s oldest and most renowned sugar estates. Each bottle is individually numbered and comes with a signed aging certificate by master blender Joy Spence.

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341 Appleton Estate 21-Year Ratings

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pat 🇨🇭 | 7 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Un Rum agréable avec des arômes de cuir, de caramel.
Puissant tout en gardant une certaine douceur.
Long en bouche, on y revient pour une "dernière" gorgée.

Miles 🇦🇺 | 8 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

it isnt until you go one more step up the ladder to the 30 year old that you're like "ok. dayum. thats rum i want witout a mixer." it is still very good, and goes well with it's fruit laden notes, but if you're going to spend up, spend up and go one more down the rabbit hole.

Geneo 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted 7 years ago

This is my favorite rum and I compare all rums I taste to it. I was raised drinking bourbon but Rum has become my drink of choice. Let's face it, all distilled spirits start as ethanol with the difference being the parent source of it's sugar ( or starch) i.e: corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, molasses, fruit or whatever. The ethanol distilled from these sources will carry some it's parent's distinct flavoring. Other distinctions can be the number of re-distillations, water used to cut or water it down, percent of alcohol in the finished product, if aged, the type of aging. additives introduced that enhance flavor or color and many more processes. With rum, since it's parent is molasses it should naturally have a hint of sweet molasses flavoring and when aged in new white oak barrels or used white oak whiskey barrels it should pick up the flavors left by the whiskey and the charred oak. (Some rums are double casted in oak and then used wine barrels) The aging process should add flavors, color and smoothness, cutting down the harshness we find in fresh distilled alcohol. The Appleton 21 year old is robust, filled with flavor of molasses, and vanilla from the oak, not to sweet and very smooth for a rum but it still has a little bite. It is a rum that when I sip it I get a warm felling throughout my body. Others have commented that the Appleton 12 year old is very similar to taste while quite a bit less expensive. I would agree but find the 21 yr. old more robust enough to pay the difference. Because of the price difference, I do sip the 12 yr. old more often. I give the 21 yr old a 10 as I considerate it the gold standard of rum.

Rodrigo 🇲🇽 | 113 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Es uno de los mejores rones que tomado, es bastante dulce, sin duda lo volvería a comprar

Mr.B 🇬🇧 | 70 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

All adulterated rum producers take note. This is how it's done.

Love the new packaging with the added detail of bottling number & a small detail of certificate highlighting that it's a true minimum 21 yr old blend.

Lovely coppery orange colour. Instant familiar Jamaican funk aroma although more balanced than the younger version. Tasting smooth, sweet with oily spicy texture and some oak which not overpowering at all. Very long finish.

Love it. Well worth it.

Niclas Carlman 🇸🇪 | 80 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Rounder and warmer than the 12 year old. Tastes appears after swallowing.

easymac 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted over 7 years ago

Quite simply the best rum to have graced my tastebuds. Very smooth, and leaves a sweet taste in your mouth as it leaves.

Tomas Walter 🇦🇺 | 10 ratings
Posted almost 8 years ago

Packaged well in a nice bottle that displays its gorgeous colours perfectly.

Warm with a powerful burn and a dry initial flavour. Once the burn fades it is sweet, crisp. Soft nose. A fine rum for sipping. Very much a rum you could compare to a fine scotch of the same value.

A good one to offer your whiskey/scotch loving friends that don't take rums seriously!

jake 🇳🇿 | 23 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

Nicely packaged. Comes in a nice solid container & the new bottle looks more like the Exclusive Jamaica bottle. A strong wood flavour there but not over powering the rum & not to spicy. Very smooth & very addictive! Goes down a little to easy & the glass smells devine afterwards. Even the next day when you clean up you can still get an aroma from the glass so it has good staying power. The only problem I have with this rum is, at $210 per bottle it's a once off for me. There are to many other great rums just as good out there at half the price or less to justify buying again.

Andy (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 142 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Nutty nose with hints of fruit and vanilla. Nutty taste carries through to a very long finish that has some slightly strange lingering notes. Some spice but not a ton. Complex and slightly less sweet than I prefer personally, but still very good

NickTheGreek 🇦🇺 | 18 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Had a big rum tasting a few months ago and this was in the top 2 favourites. In fact the whole Appleton range was very well favoured.

We destroyed a bottle of V/X in a sitting with a few mates. Lovely with a coke mix. Wish I got more bottles.

But this 21 was just something else. If you are into the really sweet rums, than this probably isn't for you. Go towards Diplomatico if that is your taste.

This finishes a little dryer, but that doesn't take anything away from it. It is a damn fine rum. Lovely oak and vanilla. Very smooth and minimal burn.

Drink it straight up, sit it and just enjoy.
Firmly in my top 5.




Brand Details

Name: 21-Year
Years Aged: 21
Type: Appleton Estate
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No

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