Dos Maderas PX 5+5

This is a very soft and sweet rum if that is what you can call it. No burn, now wow, just a really soft liqorlike beverage. Can be nice to drink on some ocassions but it doesn't do it for me. Too soft.

Un bon blend pour ceux qui aime la rondeur.

Fortement marqué par le finish on en oublie facilement ces nobles origines

Hardly tastes like rum at all....more like a treacly version of madeira.

Got the Dos Maderas gift pack as a gift from the RumRatings club team.
The content is a full bottle of 5+5 and four samples, one each of the rum base, the Dos Cortados Sherry, the 5+3 and the Don Guido Pedro Ximenez(PX) Sherry.

I started the tasting with the base which is a blend of 5yo rum from Guyana(DDL) and 5yo rum from Barbados (a little unclear if it comes from WIRD or Foursquare, seen both data) imported to Jerez in Spain, it’s quite good and I can clearly recognize Demerara. There’s probably a decent part Port Mourant in it.
Thereafter I went on with the Dos Cortados Sherry, which is very dry.
Then time for the 5+3, there the 5 stands for the aging of the base in the Caribbean and the 3 for 3 years of Solera aging in used Dos Cortados barrels in Jerez. These 3 years gives a clear footprint to the base and makes it drier. See further review below the 5+3.
The fourth sample is the super sweet and very dark red PX Sherry. A dessert wine.

Finally the tasting of the 5+5 which is the 5+3 finished for two more Solera years in used PX Sherry barrels. Have also read that they add a little PX Sherry to it. It’s very dark and quite sweet even if I had expected it even more sweet. These two last years and the eventual added flavors really gives it an significant flavor.
From nose to the medium long finish I recognize the sweet PX Sherry, raisins, vanilla, fruits and quite many other notes.

A peculiarity with this rum is that it start as English styled rum and finish up as a Latin styled rum in my opinion. Maybe it's because the two brothers-in-law, Williams & Humbert, who started the company, had a British background and therefore used English styled rum in the base.

This rum is too sweet and has to much taste of the PX Sherry in my opinion, but it has been very enjoyable to follow the development of this rum from the base via 5 + 3 to 5 + 5 and see how this aging (and eventually some added flavors) have changed taste and appearance.

Pictures: The content of the gift pack & My opened bottle of the 5+5.

Easy to drink but easy to forget.
I am just reminding myself how my journey begun.
As for many others, this one as well as Diplomatico RE,Zacapa 23.....
Unfortunately new vintage of Maderas 5+5 is a bit worse than older versions.

This tastes like Sherry with a harsh alcohol taste. I somehow prefer the cheaper version of this rum (2*4 or sth) this this one is more able to combine the taste of Sherry and Rum.

Ok , great taste. .

Velmi příjemně voní, chuť je dobrá, ale přišla mě trochu plochá, oproti 5+3 a Selection mě tolik nezaujala

this rum has a port finish, if you like this it's ok. for me it's too much port taste, then better take the PuntaCana XOX from Oliver.

Nice sweet aroma, but too much of a sherry taste for me. Interesting if you want to try something different.