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Multiple | Aged | 40% ABV | Pot and Column Still Distilled
Plantation XO 20th Anniversary rum is a combination of pot-stilled and column-stilled Barbadian rums that are initially aged in the Caribbean in ex-bourbon casks for 12-20 years. They are then transported to France for a second 12-18 months aging in small French oak casks.
The first bottle of Plantation XO 20th Anniversary was created for the head of Cognac Ferrand Estate Alexandre Gabriel to honor his 20th year running the company. This special gift has resulted in the bottling we see today.
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6 years ago
As the title says, figured a cool bottle for the bar....1st sniff and the vanilla was amazing! Not overly sweet but a nice deep, rich flavor!
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6 years ago
I’ve not tried a rum yet that deserves a 10 rating. I’ve rated some 9’s before and believe there is always something better. This however is as close as it gets to a 10 in my book. Great from start to finish. Everyone should try this at least once.
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6 years ago
- taste: 83/100
- value for money: 80/100
- score: 81.5/100
- price: arround 40 eur
Posted
6 years ago
A very well balanced rum. Taste of coconut and other traditional rum flavors. A bit on the sweet side but well balanced. I wish I could afford to drink this all the time.
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6 years ago
My top 3 favorite with Zacapa XO and Eldorado 15 years old, I love everything of it! Balanced flavors with vanilla, caramel, smoothness, impeccable!!!
Nice tasting blend, smooth, would recommend at this price, makes a good dark and stormy
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6 years ago
Alright I’ll admit it!! As of late I’ve had a total hard on for Barbados Rums, and for good reason, they are good at their craft! I can’t wait to go there!
Plantation XO just glides down your throat, slightly warming your belly while providing a light and clean aftertaste of honey and coconut. The one thing though, this rum doesn’t seem to have much character to it. It’s good if not great, but not incredible. To me, it needs more complexity to it in order to push it to the next level. Probably and 8.5 on the Joe scale.
Now I drink my third bottle an I enjoy it better than the first one.
It has really nice smooth and sweet aroma with a coconut and chocolate hint, very nice to sniff.
The taste is more complex than other in its price level, and it's not so sweet as it smells. The sweetness appears little bit later and then fades and the coconut and oak notes gets stronger in aftertaste, but still very pleasant to drink. The alcohol taste is very short and stays in a gentle way. Very nice sipping rum.
Everyone who likes rum or starts with drinking it should try this at least once, it's worth it.
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6 years ago
Rum sweet and easy to drink, very flavored caramel with obvious notes of coconut. Very good value for money. This rum will appeal to both novices and connoisseurs palai sharpened.
Really really great! But I am afraid on the second place for my taste. I gave 8 points cause it is second in place and I keep the “10” empty because well,there too many rums for me to taste in the future
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An incredibly bland, inoffensive, adulterated "rum" intended for mass appeal. In an attempt to satisfy literally every single palate on earth the creators of this rum have totally obliterated whatever soul, substance or character the original distillates may have possessed by blending, refining, re-blending, and then, just to make sure there was no trace of character left, adding a plantation’s worth (LOL, get it) of sugar to each bottle.
Imagine someone decided to shave down Michelangelo’s David into a perfect cylinder. After all, a singular creative expression like David--or indeed any piece of art--will never be to everyone's taste. Some people may find it objectionable, what with all those irregular and uneven edges and lines, and let’s not forget about that penis. But a marble cylinder on the other hand... Who could object to a cylinder?! It’s just a perfectly safe and innocuous marble column, after all. And that’s what this rum is - a marble column. It’s apparently as “smooth” as a marble column too. Being "smooth" is one of the highest compliments one can pay a spirit, don't you know?!
As for what it tastes like... Well, if there was such a flavour as “sweet” then this rum would have it in spades. It’s a borderline-cloying, vaguely toffee-ish, vanilla-esque, coconutty, ethanol water. I wouldn’t be surprised if in addition to the mountains of added sugar there are other additives, such as vanillans, as well. The nose is almost non-existent. It smells like sweet ethanol. If you have a good imagination you might pick up some of those aforementioned toffee and vanilla notes.
The bottle is also quite ugly. It's going for "luxury item" but as is often the case with such goods it just appears tacky and gaudy. The whole thing comes across as brassy and ill proportioned, with that ridiculous stopper being the cherry on top of a wonky shit sundae. Incidentally, I quite like the shape and presentation of the standard Plantation bottles with the bulbed neck, both the squat and slim versions. They are elegantly proportioned, the labels are attractive, and the embossed seal adds personality without overdoing it. Just get rid of that stupid messy-looking twine marketing gimmick, please.
Anyway, I must say it’s a good thing that rum drinkers aren’t a demanding lot who prefer substance over style and who expect to know what they’re actually drinking, otherwise they may start getting the quality they’re paying for...