Plantation Barbados 5-Year

While still early in the (rum) game, I have yet to taste a better rum for under $30

I generally stay away from dosed rum, but this one is a go to for me. Has coconut and vanilla flavor to it. I personally love this in cola, but it’s versatile and well worth having in your possession.

Did the Plantstion Rum tasting event a few years back. Not great, but not bad for the price.

Nice color, good taste and nice finish, good drinking for night. 7/10

Pretty good, but also pretty sweet. Not a lot of depth but very smooth.

Just fine for the price I guess but now I have sampled it I wouldn't buy again.

The tasting notes on the label are laughable really with nowhere near the complexity suggested. A one dimensional sweet orange flavour with toffee and a note of coconut adding a little interest, followed by some alcohol burn. A bit crude but inoffensive, I can imagine it is much better as a mixer ...

EDIT - tasted with coke and it's pretty decent.

At this level I would happily pay a little more for the extra depth of flavour from Diplomatico Reserva.

Je to taky mensi brat plantation 20th universary, ktory je vsak ale asi 2 krat taky drahy. Za mna asi najlepsi rum v cenovej hladine cca 20 eur, naozaj neuveritelna chut za tie peniaze, velmi jemny, nie presladeny a s vyraznou chutou kokosu. Zamna velmi odporucam :)

Barbadian rum is Jamaican rum's more straight-edged sibling, and Plantation 5-year excels at that. It doesn't try to do anything especially wild or unique, but it does what it does well. Great for when you want a rum that won't drown you in funk or molasses flavoring, but still actually tastes like a rum. It's not particularly exciting as a sipper, but it does that well enough too.

Some burn. Sweet. Not terrible, but not particularly good

Cinnamon and sweety aroma, sweet body, missing tail