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Real McCoy White Single Blended 3-Year rum

Real McCoy White Single Blended 3-Year

Barbados | Light | 40% ABV | Pot and Column Still Distilled

6.2/10
47 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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47 Real McCoy White Single Blended 3-Year Ratings

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JGiralt 🇺🇸 | 83 ratings
Posted almost 4 years ago

No alcohol burn. A great light body. notes of coconut with a light oak after taste. A good clean mixing rum.

Jaybird 🇺🇸 | 48 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

The rum has a light aroma of fruit and subtle cane. Alcohol is smooth in the nose. The flavor straight up is a bit underwhelming. Nothing bad here just a bit light and one dimensional. Fruity character and warming alcohol. Not hot in my book. Smooth but not a lot of depth to my palate. Nice dry finish.
As a mixer it really does a nice job. Good flavor comes through in more simple cocktails calling for a lightly aged dry rum. I like this or the Flor de Cana 4 extra seco in lighter cocktails like daiquiri, Barbados rum punch, El Presidente and other similar drinks. A bit more character than a light Cuban style rum. A solid rum to have on the shelf and fairly priced.

je_farley 🇺🇸 | 106 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

Soft to the nose and not my idea of a sipper but like the way it mixed. Soft to the tounge but added to both coke and citrus. Have not blended it yet just tried at the bar but will probably add to my bar.

Tikiducks 🇺🇸 | 54 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

This is a lot hotter then the 5 year. There is some sweetness to it. Makes a good daiquiri.

Engwild 🇺🇸 | 153 ratings
Posted over 4 years ago

It's a black and it's not bad, but nothing special. Another mixer for your well.

Alan 🇺🇸 | 89 ratings
Posted almost 5 years ago

Toasted coconut, fresh fruit, crisp clean white with much more flavor than the most popular over-distilled neutral spirits that take up most of the white rum shelf space.

Dan 🇬🇧 | 58 ratings
Posted 5 years ago

To be fair, I'm biased. I'm not the biggest fan of white rum.

That said, I take no pleasure whatsoever in drinking this without a mixer. Ting makes it better.

henrik pedersen 🇩🇰 | 170 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

Den bedste klarer rum jeg har smagt. Kan bestemt bruges til andet end at mixe

Robert Ferron 🇬🇧 | 166 ratings
Posted over 5 years ago

Attended a tasting seminar for The Real McCoy at Cardiff Rum Festival on the weekend. Was incredibly well presented telling us of the provenance of the name being of Bill McCoy and rum running schooners.

This is a good quality flavoursome white aged in charred American oak for 3 years it's flavour is reminiscent of toasted coconut. Comparable to Flor de Cana 4 and El Dorado 3

Paul B 🇺🇸 | 472 ratings
Posted almost 6 years ago

Looking for a premium tequila at my favorite liquor store, it had been a while since I checked their rum section. I expected to find nothing after having rated 107 rums, but there it was! All three of The Real McCoys; 3 year, 5 year, and 12 year. I already tried the 5 year and did not care for it's heavily wooded flavor, so I bought the other two.

I had to test this 3 year old "white" rum against my favorite white rum known as Cana Brava 3 year old from Panama. No contest due to the heavy initial burn on my tongue from this Real McCoy. How it gets it's pale yellow color is beyond me.

On another note, the current obsession with completely dry rums puzzles me. Yes, if one plans to sip these neat, then by all means go for it. However, very few of these dry rums (including this one) are good enough to sip neat. Feeling ripped off in buying this bottle, I used 12 ounces of it to make a 24 ounce batch of original daiquiris. This is one of sour (lime juice), two of sweet, (simple syrup), three of strong (rum), and four of weak (ice added later). With that much simple syrup added, this drink now has more added sugar than one of those sugar bombs. So even if these dry rums are not used to make daiquiris, there is no doubt that whatever is added as a mixer will contain sugar. Can I say, "Colossal DUH!!!!"?

And by the way, this rum is not good enough to drink on the rocks. Having no additives is it's only selling point, which is only an excuse to jack up the price beyond what it is really worth. There are at least six white rums that I would rate better than this one. It is not the worst white rum that I tried, but when price is considered, I will never buy it again.




Brand Details

Name: White Single Blended 3-Year
Years Aged: 3
ABV: 40%
Type: Real McCoy
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Pot and Column Still
Women Led Rum: No

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