Dos Maderas PX 5+5

This is a great dessert rum. Excellent nose and a genuinely sweet pallette. This bottle never lasts long enough at my house

I recommend neat, chilled in a jigger but leave the ice in the jigger. It didn’t do much for me the first time I had it neat and at room temperature. Thought I would try again chilled and wow, what a difference. The little bit of water off the ice and shaking it in the jigger really makes a difference. Would definitely recommend this rum.

Buen ron. Doblemente alejado, de características sólidas

I normally don’t like dosed rums but this one is pretty subtle in that department. Tasting brings some apricots and walnuts that quickly become swallowed up by tobacco, toffee, raisin, figs, molasses and caramel but it all works extremely well together. There is dosage (added sugar) and it does longer on the pallate a while after drinking but it isn’t anything overbearing or overly sweet. All in all this is a solid rum, especially for after dinner sipping.

Sweet, but not sugary sweet. The Sherry cask is very prominent and adds sweetness to the molasses/brown sugar it feels like it already had. Some cherry and toffee. Dark & rich. Lingers nicely.

A little on the sweeter side however tasteful. It is stable taste. After like 3 bottles I tried it seems it keeps the same quality.

You can taste the sherry from the barrel where it aged.

I admit the bad experiences with sherry (from teenage years) influence my rating, but this rum is too sweet for me and there is too much sherry in the taste. The rum notes are completely drowned out by the sherry.

I'm not opposed to a sugar bomb, so I found this one quite interesting. Its got a LOT of flavor, more than any other rum I've ever tasted. But its also very sweet and rich, so if you prefer dry rums, this isn't for you. I usually try to compare a rum to something similar that I've had before, but I'm having a little trouble finding something similar. I want to say this might be like a more intense version of Zafra 21, but it has more raisin flavor. Since Zafra is one of my faves, this has worked its way onto the fave list as well, and I think I might like it a little better than Zafra actually.

One thing I tried that was interesting is I mixed 4 parts of this to 1 part Barbancourt 15 year, which is a fairly light rum, and the blend of the two took some of the intensity out of the DM, while adding a tiny agricole influence to the mix.

Ironically, this rum is from Barbados, which usually shuns the use of added sugar, but I guess its not strictly prohibited.

Aspoň na túto pochutinu som si hneď spomenul pri prvom ovoňaní. Sherry cítiť vo vôni aj v chuti a spolu s hrozienkami vytvárajú skvelú harmóniu. Na mňa trošku ťažší, ale pkaždým ďalším pohárikom mu viac a viac prichádzam na chuť :o))

Aroma: / 10
Taste: / 10
Overall: / 10

Bottle at home.