Paranubes Oaxaca Aguardiente de Caña

This one's gonna hunt you down and zombify you.

What
The
DAMN!

There are probably other rums in the Oaxaca countryside and mountains that do this, maybe better, maybe not. We don't know yet, there are only a tiny bit we can get our hands on in stores. But this is really in a class all its own. Thinking "mezcal rum" is a start, but this monster drinks like a rhum agricole and brings a Caribbean-like delirious heat to it. Briny olives in the nose, that tinge of vinegar, smoked mesquite and scorched grapefruit rind up front, sure. It tastes like exquisite fuel for the palate, bold and funky in its vegetal characteristics, and a passionate heat that gently traces its way down your gullet. Not for the faint of heart!

This rapidly became one of my favorite cane spirits after trying it. I've tried another in the same style, which was good, but this is hands-down a classic.

This is completly different experience than what you are used to and I beg you to spend your money if you are true explorer of tastes and bored of repeting vanila/caramel/wood flavours in every other rum.

This a new agricole-style rum hailing from Oaxaca, bottled at 54% ABV. It opens with a hugely briny nose redolent of manzanilla olives. It’s fairly grassy as well, so agricole lovers will not be disappointed. The palate is more muted—still briny, but well-balanced by a mild sweetness. It’s quite interesting, but that nose is a challenge. Reminded me of St. George Rum Agricole.

6+

Not really a better way to describe this than wild. It's so full on, in your face, powerful, and yet filled with nuance and delicacies that it's hard to put your finger on what makes it so unique. The nose is not your standard Agricole, and its borderline unfair to rate it against something from Martinique. I find myself gravitating towards it when I want to sip something engaging. Haven't mixed it, but not sure if I want to. True expression of the cane and terroir, leads me begging for more aguardiente de canas in my cabinet.

Edit: pushing to a 9. It really characterizes a good quality spirit. Each time I drink it I pick out different flavors that I appreciate. Brine and green olives on the nose. Sweet, complex palate with a strong vegetal note initially, followed by overripe tropical fruits. Medium length finish of fennel. Sniffing the empty glass I get a wild combo of vinegar (almost ketchup) and a bit of sugar.

Meget speciel rum fra Mexico. Jeg bryder mig ikke om den som sipper, men laver en fantastisk mojito

Je to moc dobré, skvělý divoký rum, to mě baví, to mám rád.

Oaxacan cane juice rum. Unaged 55% abv
Nose: Strong vinegary ketchup like macdonald's ketchup. Olives, fresh grass, sweet citrus like lemon drops, heady smoke, saltiness, and earth, pleasantly sweet and acidic nose. Fresh!

Taste: First lots of acidity with lots of minerality, brine and smoke, pungent juicy assorted citrus fruits with earthiness and fresh acidic grass, olives too. There is some of that tomato ketchup but not much. Very sweet too for a cane juice rum

Finish: White pepper, minerality and there is also hotness but manageable, acidity bit like pickled red chilies.

Excellent, i was surprised by how pleasant this agricultural rum is, its not overly raw and unrefined like i was afraid but instead very pungent but still pleasant.

Reminds me heavily of a clarin. Pretty decent but raw. Big vegetal and olive brine nose with plum and blackberry. Hints of red fruit and honey on the tongue. Ends with tobacco.

It’s crazy to me the reviews are all over the place. This rum is amazing!

I'm too new to rum to allow myself anything higher than an 8 rating, but this changed my perception of what rum could be. Overall, I think of this less as a sipper than a mixer, but that implies a drink of lower quality and this is so far from that. The complex interaction of smells and tastes have elevated the cocktails I've had this in. In a good cocktail, this will be what you remember—and crave—long after. I certainly did.

Nose: I could smell this all day long. So many notes and depth. I've heard it mainly described as grassy, but I get a lot of banana, without any sweetness.

Flavor: sharp with hints of acidity, no banana or sweet notes. Not as full bodied as the aged molasses rums. I can see how people who want a molasses rum would be put off by this, and it's not a first choice as a sipper for me. Over the course of an tasting pour, it grows on me as I go through the glass.

Alcohol: this is an overproof rum, and it has some heat, but it doesn't burn.