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Marques del Valle 8-Year rum

Marques del Valle 8-Year

Colombia | Aged | 40% ABV

5.5/10
7 ratings
Easily consumable in a bind
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7 Marques del Valle 8-Year Ratings

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Bernard Psymax 🇨🇦 | 3 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

And also, available in province of Quebec in Canada.

Basvanhaver 🇳🇱 | 4 ratings
Posted over 3 years ago

sweet vanilla, thick mouth feel. Very good aroma. plastic dosing cap doesn't always work and is not useful anyway.

Tom 🇺🇸 | 4 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Not super sweet, but tons of vanilla with some fruity sweetness. But it's short, doesn't linger. Unique.

cK 🇨🇦 | 68 ratings
Posted 5 years ago

Sippable and an excellent mixer. Great value and a good gift choice as it has a cork and appears to be very high-end.

AlexMo 🇷🇺 | 201 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

I notice that Colombian distillers have problems with corking bottles. At this rum, the cork came out with a geyser. I put them back in, there were no further problems. The bottle looks impressive. The aroma is not strong and ennobled with oak aging. On the palate, there is toffee sweetness, oiliness, decent colombian cask dryness. The effect is a little boring and heavy - it tends to sleep. Therefore, after a couple of glasses it is better not to continue it, although this quality product will not spoil your morning.

Cool Breeze (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 555 ratings
Posted 10 months ago

Tasted in a rum flight at Cuba Libre in DC on 5/22/23. Pours a Dark gold, light amber color. Aroma is faint and muted, perhaps a thin honey tincture.Thin in body as well. Candy sweetness. Bubble gum. Whimpers away with no lingering finish. If this is the product of 8 years of aging, perhaps a shorter barrel time might be more interesting..

JGulla 🇺🇸 | 7 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

Saw this on the shelf for under $20 and took a shot on it based on some decent reviews. Nice looking bottle design, and I was looking for an aged rum from Columbia, so this fit the bill.

The color? A nice golden amber. Nothing special, though the bottle makes it more attractive. Was surprised to find that despite the bottle looking to have a cork top, it is indeed a faux cork stopper concealing a screw top on mine. Nice plastic pour spout on the inside, at least, to assist with getting it into the glass more easily.

The aroma? Quite nice. Not strong on alcohol and about what I would expect from an 8 year old aged product. Hints of vanilla and sweetness.

The taste? Hmmm ....This is interesting. Now, I’ve tasted quite a bit of whiskey, scotch, bourbon, and over 40+ various rums at this point in my spirit adventures, and although I’ve read many reviewers that often speak about getting distinct fruits and raisin flavors from their rums and whiskeys, I never ever have. I always thought that either my palate was unable to detect this, (despite my enjoyment of the flavors) or ... they are all full of shit or trying to hard to find traces of something they could describe to someone that makes them sound like they have a master taster’s refined palate.
After trying this rum, however, I think I now have to believe them — or at least entertain the notion with more sincerity.

Ron Marques Del Valle 8 year tastes unmistakeably like raisins. Or at very least, what I would call “raisin forward”. This is not to say it isn’t enjoyable, though I would characterize it as much thinner than I would like, and a little less complex, too. I get a nice sweetness up front— not overpowering or cloying, but certainly present, as it settles into its raisin love fest for the duration of the sip. Honestly, it’s a bit of a one note performance. A nice note, and one that many may appreciate, but it lacks the rest of the symphony behind it to achieve greatness. The finish isn’t going to stick around either; it comes and goes.

I don’t know that I can fault it totally, since it is certainly still sippable, and I’d like to see how it holds in some mixed drinks, but this won’t be a top shelf product for me. I’m anxious to try more of Columbia’s rums and see if this holds for other brands distilled there, or if this is a unique profile.




Brand Details

Name: 8-Year
Years Aged: 8
ABV: 40%
Type: Marques del Valle
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No