Dictador Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-Year

A fine and tasty rum, honest twenty-year aging has done its positive work.

8-Nose:As usual with Dictador, the nose of this rum opens with a good glassful of coffee. But to stop there would be to state the obvious: this coffee is flavored with vanilla and sweetened with a dollop of molasses. Black molasses has a distinct licorice aroma. The nose is quite dry, with walnuts, pecans and almonds. These nuts are caught in a hard caramel, and we can now easily visualize a slab of crunchy nougatine.
Licorice continues to lead the way on aeration, bathed in tobacco and coffee smoke. Caramelized nuts like pecan are still present, forming a powder mixed with spices. In this definitely very dark register, bread and wood are toasted.
8:On the palate, a small, sweet bubble of yellow fruit bursts out and spills over first. This sweetness compensates for the darker side of the nose, which logically translates here into a peppery, even spicy harshness. This continues with salted brown caramel, lots of coffee and a spicy woodiness where coriander adds a little freshness and whimsy. Molasses and licorice complete the deep, dark picture.
7,5:The last lingering notes on the palate are dry walnuts, caramelized pecans and maple syrup.

A luxurious rum with complex flavors of caramel, toffee, and spices. Velvety texture with a long, satisfying finish

If you like very dark and oaky rums, this is for you.

Był kiedyś taki klej, który nazywał się guma arabska. To moje pierwsze skojarzenie, jeśli chodzi o jego zapach zaraz po otworzeniu butelki. Jest łagodniejszy i słodszy niż 12. To przyzwoity trunek.

OMG sooooooo gooooood! Glad I had the opportunity to enjoy. The nose gives you cocoa and coffee. In the mouth there's flavors of chocolate, vanilla, carmel and a big finish of oak and coffee! The flavors are strong and harmonious. The sweetness is gentle. The alcohol does not burn at all but leaves a nice warmth in the mouth. You don't want to waste this Rum with Coke. One of my favorite rums and if you get the opportunity - you wont be disappointed.

Walnut, coffee and chocolate in aroma; sweet coffee start, wallnut, wood from barrel in body; short weak coffee tail.

I wanted to try this to see if there's too much difference to Platinum. Sadly, there is. A butload. It's not so smooth. More woody, less walnutty than platinum, but still a good rum. Although, there are other rums in the same price range that I like better.

Although it’s not bad, I didn’t find anything remarkable in this rum.

Toast like nose no burn at all, super smooth but it’s just not enough of anything not enough sweetness, not enough caramel flavor, not enough wood finish. But it’s smooth sippable and really nothing to complain about