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Guatemala | Aged | 40% ABV | Column Still (1-4) Distilled
Ron Zacapa 23 Solera Rum was created in 1976 in the highlands of Guatemala, where it is distilled in a copper-lined column still from fresh cane juice before solera aging.
The 500 year-old Spanish Sistema Solera method is used to age Ron Zacapa 23 in white oak casks. This results in a combination of rums aged between 6 and 23 years.
The current Ron Zacapa 23 bottle features a woven band around the middle, which is in reference to the original hand woven palm leaf petate bottle cover that covered the bottle.
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With Diplomatico RE, this is the second pillar of my gate into to world of rum. It has drier taste profile than the Diplomatico, and considering the complexity - I value this Zacapa higher. The nose is sweet, toffee, burnt sugar, the taste is quite much drier, with pronounced oak from older rum composites of this solera, fruits, mainly raisins, the taste is pleasantly rich, decorated with cocoa and coffee notes, and the aftertaste ends this experience with mainly oak and coffee. Nicely done. The sugar level is acceptable, some 20g/l which is less than most of the mass marketed "premium" rums such as Diplomatico RE, Dos Maderas 5+5, Plantation 20, Centenario 20.