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Blackwell Black Gold Special Reserve rum

Blackwell Black Gold Special Reserve

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Jamaica | Aged

6.8/10
144 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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144 Blackwell Black Gold Special Reserve Ratings

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Bigbillyt 🇺🇸 | 13 ratings
Posted almost 3 years ago

Minor Update, I wish we could give half bottles, this has a little more going on than I gave it credit for. It is a simple, but delicious, mixing rum, bit there are definite, but subtle, notes of coffee, chocolate and vanilla in the finish on this one, easily a 7.5 and still one of my favorite mixers.

This rum is actually wonderful due its simplicity. It is a straight up expression of Jamaican rum, which is great to find in this day and age. The nose and tasting palette are quite similar, strong nose of molasses and not much else to get in the way. The other nice thing is it is incredibly smooth. This is such a perfect blank canvas to mix with almost anything. I just tried it in a Trader Vic's Grog and it was fantastic, light and slightly sweet allowing the passion fruit and other flavors to pop and shine.
The other great news is the price, for under twenty bucks you really can't go wrong. Sure, you could use other white or gold rums that would be completely absent in a drink's flavor profile, but this does a bring a Jamaican molasses punch to the party without strong funk or other notes that are sometimes not as desirable.
Definitely give this one a try if you like Jamaican rum and need a good basic mixer.

Abenne66 🇺🇸 | 11 ratings
Posted 5 days ago

Nice funky Jamaican rum. Easily drinkable. I recommend this especially if you’ve not tried Jamaican rum.

ecsz 🇭🇺 | 52 ratings
Posted 5 months ago

This is an ok rum, but nothing extraordinary for me.

HunterRomario 🇨🇿 | 380 ratings
Posted 6 months ago

Alkohol: 40 %
Původ: Jamajka
Aroma: Medová sladkost, belgické pralinky, turecký med, mandle, za tím i trocha kokosu. (84 b)
Chuť: Sušší, než bych dle vůně očekával. Čokoláda, těžší dřevo, v dochuti dřevitě větrový. (80 b)
Body: 82/100
Shrnutí: Ochutnán s kamarádem na naší zářijové akci. Žádný zázrak tahle značka, ošklivá lahev ukrývá nic moc rum, navíc levný taky není. Ale pořád lepší než verze 007, která je kvalitou srovnatelná, stojí litr a má lepší jen tu lahev. Čili slovy klasika: naprosto zbytečná záležitost.

Rumrun11 (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 125 ratings
Posted 6 months ago

As a mixer this is really good - makes one hell of a dark and stormy. As a sipper - totally one dimensional and flat tasting very very little of that Jamaica funk. So i will split the difference in my rating. 8 as a mixer and 4 as a sipper.

Jara 🇨🇿 | 307 ratings
Posted 10 months ago

Vůně chemoprén, dub, ovoce, vanilka
Chuť kořenitá, ovocná, jablka, třešně, lehce technika, tabák, ořechy v cukru, čokoláda, pendrek
Dochuť dřevitě nasládlá, kratší
Ne tak výrazný, ale chutný, takový "baby funk" 😁

Steven 🇺🇸 | 16 ratings
Posted 10 months ago

Nothing crazy to share about this rum. Slight funk on the nose with caramel, molasses, and vanilla.

HCRumMan 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted 12 months ago

Loved it. I need to find the 007 edition to see the difference.

rumrunner 🇺🇸 | 46 ratings
Posted 12 months ago

Coming in at $40 US I had a lot of expectations on what this rum should be, and while it didn’t meet the expectations I had, it didn’t certainly didn’t disappoint.

The website doesn’t give a ton of information, but after scouring online it seems this rum is aged anywhere from 1-3 years. How ever long it’s aged it’s surprisingly smooth with little heat. It doesn’t take fake and adulterated like the Gosling Black Seal rum and in fact, it had a wonderful balance of sweet and funk with a dry finish. I got a lot of caramel and burnt toffee up front with a dry sweet vanilla finish.

So far I’ve just drank it neat but I’m very curious to see how it adds to a jungle bird or Mai Tai.

DavidBohn (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 4 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

This is a functional black rum for mixing. Nice color and finish.

MajorIssue 🇺🇸 | 3 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

Finally the Caribbean taste I was looking for. Fruity , thick and hint of spice going down. I took it neat but with a cube it I bet it would be pleasant under a palm tree on the beach. Definitely one I will stock.




Brand Details

Name: Black Gold Special Reserve
Type: Blackwell
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No

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