James Cook Echter Ubersee

Decent nose and acceptable taste, better than expected but not my first (or second) choice for drinking straight. However, it's surprisingly good for mixed drinks and punches.

It's made in Guyana and, best of all, here in Bulgaria it's on Special Offer at the equivalent of £3/slightly over €3 right now....what's not to like!

i cant hardly taste any rum at all and even when i mixed it with cola hardly any flavour
worst rum i ever had

Il rum del Lidl che si beveva da ragazzini, il gusto lo trovi solo se lo immagini e hai davvero tanta immaginazione

This rum is better to use in cocktails like pinacolada.

Good taste, good price, good for me, it's like a wet not dry after when you drink. I really recommend.
Dobry smak, dobra cena, dobre dla mnie, jest jak mokry a nie słuchy posmak. Polecam spróbować

This is clearly budget stuff.
And it has serious batch variations. So it could well be that the rum you are getting is different from what I got.
I have sampled three different batches, two of the 54% ABV variant, one of the 40% ABV variant. I found the older ones to be better, but this might be due to bottle aging and oxidation.

I am rating the newest one, the older ones were better.
The smell, as well as the taste is a bit plastic like, very artificial. In a way, I associate this smell and taste with Indian rum. Some vaguely funky notes, some banana jelly. Quite alcoholic.
Not overly sweet, which is good.

It is OK to mix into something that will mask it. And it is a good base for adding a few drops of good rum, which results in a rather drinkable result.
Also competent in grog.

This is by far my least favourite rum that I’ve tried. I think I’d rather drink melted plastic.

Tastes like paint striper, infact i would rather drink paint striper , dusgusting vile stuff !

Quite weak taste,nowhere near the hit you get with Captian Morgan or Lambs ,so worth paying the extra.But saying that £10 for a large bottle you cant grumble.