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had this rum recently
Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year Rum is agricultural, meaning it's produced from fermented sugar cane juice rather than the more typical molasses. The sugar cane juice is double distilled and aged for eight years in Limousin oak barrels.
Dupré Barbancourt created the Barbancourt rum recipe in 1862 in Haiti, where the rum is still produced today. A French national, Barbancourt incorporated traditional French methods including double-distillation in the process.
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Posted
1 year ago
A little hotter than some Agricole but nice aroma, and taste. You can smell the brown sugar, the field, and oak. Get yourself a bottle.
Posted
1 year ago
Tastes very mild but it has all of the good things there.. slight whisky, vanilla, oak.
Slight sweetness. Not so much
Super smooth
Posted
1 year ago
Na nose dřevo, lehce karamel, vodka, trocha ovoce. Pořád celkem ploché, ale pořád příjemně čisté a šťavnaté. V chuti dominuje karamel. Dochuť krátka. I přes tu plochost mě na tom něco babí.
Posted
1 year ago
Vanilla and caramel aroma, cocoa, coffee and wood barrel in the palate. Decent burning ending.
Posted
1 year ago
Intenso, pungente, note di solvente e di pepe, ma senza finale o profondità, lontane le note mielate
Posted
1 year ago
Tasted at Laka Lono 8/19/21
Notes indicate that this had a sweet taste and that our discussion was mostly around the confusing naming system for these rums, involving both years and stars
UPDATE: Also entered in my passport on 1/31/22 with notes that this was a little more agricole in flavor than I prefer. Interestingly, I did give it the same rating as the first time.
Posted
1 year ago
I'm not always into Agricoles but this one was drinkable. Although hella affordable, I probably won't be getting this again for sipping- but would definitely not say no if someone offered it.
It was good I just can't put my finger on anything that WoW'ed me.
Posted
over 1 year ago
In cocktails, this does an OK job. Neat, however, this rhum does not have a pleasant nose and the first sip is pretty overwhelming with a medicinal/chemical taste. Second sip is not as bad, but still not great. Wouldn't buy again.
Posted
over 1 year ago
My favorite rum for sailing, drink as ti-punch: 1,5 Oz rum, 3/4 Oz cane syrup, 1/4 Oz (or less) of fresh pressed lime juice, find the sweet spot of lime juice where a coconut flavour appears, it’s pure magic
Posted
over 1 year ago
Good Aroma. Very warm flavors of wood barrel, spices brown sugar, and a nice vegetal note at the end. A great choice.
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Something was wrong with mine from the factory. I fixed it.
6
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out of 10
UPDATE: Whenever I drink rum I let them breath in the glass for about 10 minutes. I did the same when I originally posted this rum and the initial results were such. However I had a feeling something was wrong with this batch as a whole, like the factory missed a mixing step. The smoke flavor was just way too high to be normal. I figured to get the smokey taste out would be just to stir it. So I poured the whole bottle in a pryex glass and put it on the stirrer and stirred for about 20 minutes. After having the whole room smell like a burning log I took it off the stirrer and tried it. MUCH better, the flavors are all there like they should be. Definitely can get the argicole taste now. And doesn't taste like a burning log anymore. Still not that good but enough to be enjoyable in a rum and coke.
I'm leaving the original review below \/
This is bad rum at all points. Opening the bottle it smells OK at best (kind of like a failed pusser's batch). Drinking it straight is okay for a millisecond (imagine a better tasting bacardi gold) and in comes a whoosh of harshness with so much smokey/tabacco flavor you mine as well suck the tail pipe of an 84' ford, there is only a faint hint of the grassy agricole part but that flushed out by the smokey too. In coke its much the same, it is less harsh but there is so much smoke flavor its not very good. It's not even a pleasant smoke like smoked jerky. It's more like the new guy left the space heater too close to the barrel and it caught them all on fire and they said "screw it we waited 8 years we are going to sell it anyway". Clement makes 100x better agricole. This could be good to marinate foods in for a smokey taste.