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Rum Nation Barbados Anniversary 12-Year rum

Rum Nation Barbados Anniversary 12-Year

Italy | Aged | 40% ABV

8.3/10
35 ratings
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35 Rum Nation Barbados Anniversary 12-Year Ratings

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martin jeppesen 🇩🇰 | 256 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

It has a fine vanille nose. The character is light. It has a sweet vanilla flavour, which subsides smoothly. For full potential, let it sit in the glas for 10 mins before enjoying. A shame that rum nation went a little overboard with the added sugar.

Svante Jørgensen 🇩🇰 | 4 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

This fabulous rum begin with a clear smell, infused with notes of vanilla and a touch of fruity apricot and pineapple, devoid of any spirit harshness.
The taste starts off with strong, yet delightful vanilla in a smooth and rounded package. Fairly quickly, oak and baking spices roll on top of the vanilla, balanced with a freshness almost like mint.
This is an exceedingly refined rum that absolutely shines in the high-end premium rum class. For a 10/10 rating I would have liked the taste to linger a bit longer and provide one or two additional taste combinations - maybe a touch of naughty behavior, which this high class lady just cannot be bothered with. But still, this rum comes very close to perfection.

In my humble opinion, this rum deserves to be served neat (unmixed at room temperature) and allowed to breathe for at least 10 minutes to bring out the true flavor. Rums great for mixing can be bought much cheaper.

taz.c 🇫🇷 | 86 ratings
Posted almost 9 years ago

Rhum riche et complexe, un coté "herbe" sympa...
Finale fraiche, marquée par la menthe.

hanz.kubat 🇨🇿 | 19 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Every Bajan Rum enthusiasts wet dream! This rum got it all, fruity, sweet (but not Solera sweet, it's very dry in compare), complex, you name it, this rum got it, worth every crown....

tftowner106 🇨🇦 | 23 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

But seriously, I recently tasted this at a rum festival and it stood out as one of the best IMHO. Extremely smooth and light. A wonderful sipper.

David 🇩🇪 | 93 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

When I first tasted this rum I was underwhelmed. The second time I gave it about 15 minutes in the glass before I began sipping and it immediately became an all time favorite!

Almost mild, some sweetness and very complex taste. It has this unique velvet feeling on the tongue.

laurent 🇫🇷 | 64 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

In my opinion we have to consider the price when rating a rum. In this pricetag range I expect something exceptional.
Nose is deceiving even after sitting in the glas 10-15mn. Hopefully the better has to come : sweet with a lot of subtle flavors. That is balanced, refined and interesting, quite typical of Barbades rum. Quite pleasant to sip that rum thought it does not last so long as I would expect.
I am pretty sure there is some sugar added at some point in this rum. At least I feel it in my mouth and it is disappointing for an expensive bootle. Not excessive as some other but I still have big doubts. Of course it give some sweetness but this outshines the flavours too. Easiest to drink does not mean better rum !
All in all not a bad good rum but I find it overpriced, maybe the beautiful bottle is part of it too.

Ronny Björk 🇸🇪 | 13 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

In the nose : Vanilla and melass, dried banana.
Mouth: Smooth and lovely. Taste of vanilla and fruit and a lot of other great taste. A complex taste and very nice.
The aftertaste: Here we find some oak more fruits and somr dryness.
All to all a very good rum with a complex taste. A must in the cabinet.

mistercoughy 🇺🇸 | 239 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

A couple of Rum Nation's offerings have tested with moderate-to-high amounts of added sugar (see Jimbo's list). It would certainly explain why this Bajan rum is curiously sweet, with the obligatory vanilla milkshake flavor profile and smoothness common to doctored rums - but not usually to authentic Bajans. This tastes more like (the notoriously sugared) Plantation XO than it does any traditional Barbados rum I've ever tasted. Yeah, I'm suspicious of this one.

Allan Bjerreskov 🇩🇰 | 116 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Fruits and vanilla is what you get. The rum has a silky soft feel on the tongue, but it's too sweet for my liking.




Brand Details

Name: Barbados Anniversary 12-Year
Years Aged: 12
ABV: 40%
Type: Rum Nation
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: No