Havana Club Añejo Especial
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Cuban, not Puerto Rican, Havana Club
Posted
21 Jan '20
by
Paniolopete
from
United States
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4 ratings
I saw this bottle in the Duty Free Shop in Tahiti before our flight home and snapped it up over some others I saw there. Once I got home and tasted it, I wished I’d bought another bottle! An amber colored rum with a beautiful butterscotch nose alludes to the flavor to follow. More oaky vanilla in the flavor than on first smell as well as the butterscotch/caramel flavor. Just a hint of sweetness on the lingering aftertaste with a pleasantly balanced woodiness for a double barrel aged rum, using young whiskey barrels after the initial aging in older neutral barrels. No molasses bitterness on the finish, just the smoothness of the aging and the pleasant brown sugar goodness that draws me to rum rather than brandy or cognac for an after dinner digestif!
I saw this bottle in the Duty Free Shop in Tahiti before our flight home and snapped it up over some others I saw there. Once I got home and tasted it, I wished I’d bought another bottle! An amber colored rum with a beautiful butterscotch nose alludes to the flavor to follow. More oaky vanilla in the flavor than on first smell as well as the butterscotch/caramel flavor. Just a hint of sweetness on the lingering aftertaste with a pleasantly balanced woodiness for a double barrel aged rum, using young whiskey barrels after the initial aging in older neutral barrels. No molasses bitterness on the finish, just the smoothness of the aging and the pleasant brown sugar goodness that draws me to rum rather than brandy or cognac for an after dinner digestif!
