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Appleton Estate Extra 12-Year rum

Appleton Estate Extra 12-Year

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Jamaica | Aged | 43% ABV

Appleton Estate 12-Year Rum is a blend of several rums aged between 12 and 18 years in American oak barrels after being distilled using small-batch copper pot stills.

The rum is produced on the Appleton Estate, which sits in the Nassau Valley in Jamaica. The estate’s origins date back as far as 1655 when the English overthrew the Spanish to rule the island and Frances Dickinson, grandfather of the distillery’s founders, received the land as a reward for his role in the overthrow.

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677 Appleton Estate Extra 12-Year Ratings

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Nicholas Miller 🇺🇸 | 75 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

I always like the smell of appleton estate. Its smokey with a hint of vanila and oak cask with some sweetness in it, very unique smell. Honestly if you want a smell thats very similar go cut a 2x4 on a table saw and that is almost the smell of appleton 12. In the glass though it has a very harsh alcohol smell with some cask in it. Drinking it straight is a bad idea, its very harsh up front. Strong tastes of vanilla, oak cask and with some dryness. In diet coke it makes a nice R&C its flavor holds true with some sweetness and bitter aftertaste. Strong kick of oak cask, vanilla and some caramel. Simple rum but very good in d rum and coke, straight not so much however still decent.

caleb hogan 🇺🇸 | 18 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

So Appleton 12 is what a rum should be at this age. It tastes almost corporate. There is no surprise but also no let down. It's not impressive but it's not average. It's exactly what you think it should be and not a drop more. Perfect 12 year notes of all your common rum flavors, oak, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, floral, smoke, cherry, orange, burnt sugar etc. It seems like the flavors are all equal which is both impressive and unimpressive in the same moment.

Grand Master Jay 🇬🇧 | 80 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I'd give this an 8.5, it is not a sweet rum but it is complex. Let it breathe and you will notice it is complex drink. This is a dry rum and best appreciated
Sipped slowly doing this you will notice the other flavours, give it time and it will soon become a favourite of yours.

The bottle screw top could be changed to a cork for that cork pop.

Barry 🇬🇧 | 9 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Very good condition and must be almost all of the new equipment we have got some of that is stuck in the total Design and build a better time to get a good one he doesn't sit still for sale in the office for a meeting at 8 meters of 4 core ground floor store under offices change to smoke Back office ground floor call point moving

Gregor 🇸🇮 | 4 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Strong and complex rum.

Dan 🇨🇦 | 9 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I like the flavor of this rum. I have received three bottles as gifts from friends.

Charles M 🇬🇧 | 149 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I am a little surprised that I like this one quite so much as I generally am not a great fan of Jamaican rums due to the iodine notes. However, the oak, fruit (including the iodine) and marry up to really appeal. It grows and grows on me, and has now become one of the rums that is ever present in my cupboard.

Robin BERTHIER 🇧🇪 | 21 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

As there are some nice tastes in it, I really don't like the harshness as found in Rhum Agricoles, so for me this was kind of a mispurchase.
I'm sure when wiskey-loving friends come over I'll be sure to present this one to them.

de Castro 🇫🇷 | 7 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

L'un des tous premiers rhums que j'ai gouté. Très bon rhum pas trop cher. Goût assez riche ! Très bonne odeur !

mamajuana 🇺🇸 | 148 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I drank this bottle straight up over several days. Quite smooth, not a huge amount going on though. I was expecting a little more but a commendable bottle.

Chris Williamson 🇨🇦 | 81 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

This is a good rum to start someone on if they are not sure if they want to start a rum collection and have a limited budget.




Brand Details

Type: Aged
Company: Appleton Estate
Country: Jamaica
Name: Extra 12-Year
ABV: 43%
Years Aged: 12
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led: No

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