Pyrat XO Reserve

I had some on this many years ago in Barbados, and in the Chiefs Mess onboard USS Missouri during a retirement. Has it been changed since 2007? Its a shame, I liked it neat before..

This rum will never have a problem being on the shelf. I got this because the guy at the store said I'm out of el dorado so try this one. That's the last time I will ever listen to an idiot salesman. He made his sale & I hated not only him but myself. You pirates out there should already know, Steer a Wide Berth!

This is an adulterated alcohol product. Other than (possibly) cane sugar being the source of fermentation, it should not be considered rum.

Quite possibly there is some rum in there. But it is so heavily flavoured that it could just as well be neutral alcohol with flavours.
Smell and taste both are sweet and orange-ish. Not the sort of subtle orange one might get as part of the interaction of rum and wooden cases, but rather in-your-face orange; as one might expect from an orange liqueur. Other flavours are some of cinnamon and nutmeg. And too much sugar.

Way too expensive for what it is. If they have actually used good quality rum (which I doubt), it has been ruined by the flavouring.

Buy a cheap orange liqueur instead. If you must, mix that with some sort of not-too-pricey rum.

If I wanted an orange liqueur I would have bought a bottle of Cointreau. As rum goes, this is masquerading as something it isn't. It's not rum as I would recognise it, so get's a rating of 1. As a spirit, it isn't that bad, it just that I can't consider a rum to taste of oranges.

I opened the bottle and drank this coughing syrup.

This does not have any rum characteristics at all, sorry....................

If the bottle’s decorative embellishments weren't laughably insulting enough, this rum's crappy, gimmicky flavor should push you away forever. Also, when I lift the glass to my face it smells like something stuck to the bottom of a shoe. This rum's flavor is so overpoweringly vanilla, sugary sweet and gimmfuckicky, that I will never buy it again. Ever. This rum is foul. It has no soul. It truly sucks shit. It really does suck shit. It sucks. Shit. Expected more. Wow.

This rum(?) tastes like a case load of rotten oranges left on a dock in Jamaica during the hot season and the monsoon season, then cheap ass alcohol is poured into the case and left for another year on the dock. Even a worse taste combination than jagger with red bull.

This is the nastiest rum I have ever had. All burn and no flavor. Yuck, never again.

I can barely detect that this even has rum as a base. Doctoring rums with unlabelled additives is the rum world's dirty secret but this one takes the mickey. They don't even attempt to be subtle. Other rums, like Matusalem for example, integrate the additives so you can con yourself into believing that it's just possible that vanilla note comes from the oak barrel or whatever. But this is just BANG in your face orange flavouring, gallons of sugar syrup and some other smoothing agents that coat your tongue. It is to real rum what WKD is to vodka. All of this is just fine if you know what you're buying and happen to like it.but the price tag is quite another thing - it's not worth more than 10-12 quid in my view. Certainly not rum for people who like actual rum I'm afraid.