Pyrat XO Reserve

A friend of mine told that this was one of the best Rums he had ever tasted. Im not sure about his current medication or maybe the one he had tasted was from the previous distillery. Basically only flavour I could taste was too much orange.

Needs time to breathe. The store clerk told me Bacardi is taking over this company.Packaging is effective and eye catching with the miniature wooden barrel. It was marked down to $24 from $34 in order to eliminate the inventory. I found it to be quite smooth, perhaps a bit on the sweet side.

Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very and very good rum

This one I like the most, smooth, sweet, full of taste. Amazing rum, hope to find a similar one.

Pyrat Rum XO is een heerlijke donkere rum met een prachtig, uitgebalanceerd smakenpalet die zowel verfijnd als complex is. Bij Pyrat is kwaliteit niet een keuze maar is het de standaard, elke fles van dit prachtige product word met de hand gevuld en met de hand gelabeld bij de brouwerij in Anguilla.

De rum is zijdezacht en drinkt heerlijk weg en wordt omringd door zalige aroma’s van vanille, kaneel en bruine suiker. Complex en elegant tegelijk, een aanrader voor elke rumdrinker!

Not sure why people are giving this such high marks.
First off, the smell will make you cringe. Smells of alcohol, and more burning alcohol, with a very minor vanilla or nutmeg smell.
Tasting it is even worse. It burns your tongue and the inside of your mouth. I can't taste anything but the charred wood and burning alcohol going down. Even burns and leaves a nasty bitter after taste. If you burp, it all comes back.
This is supposed to have orange or citrus flavor in it according to other reviews. Some say it was overwhelming citrus, but I can't taste anything orange or citrus in this crap.
I even let it breathe like it was suggested in another post. No difference.
I try my hardest to be honest when I review stuff. This is $25 wasted and the biggest buying remorse ever. Wish I could get my money back or at least a partial refund.
Steer clear at all cost.

I don't expect greatness from Patron in general, but drinkability at a decent price is expected. Not so. This is a sad excuse for a rum. It tastes more like a lightly spiced triple-sec than anything else... I may experiment with it thusly in mixed drinks to make use of the rest of it. I'll try revisiting it at some point with low expectations, but somehow I'm still not hopeful. At least the bottle is nice?

En god anderledes rom, med en smag og duft af appelsin. Kan kan godt lide at den er anderledes og helt sin egen.

I did a blind taste test between this and the Pyrat Cask 1623, neither of which I had tried before. One smelled like an orange rum, the other like an orange liquor. This was the orange rum. This tasted better to me.

How did this even get a 6? Like every fine sailor I will drink just about anything. Oh, but not Pyrat. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Patron makes this? No wonder. Try again tomorrow.
I'm shivering in my timbers just thinking about it. (I prefer Pyrat xo over board) This pyrat should walk the plank.