Ron Zacapa 23 Solera

Lots of caramel, no burn, all smooth, served chilled, perfect sweetness for me.

Great color, aroma, and taste. Good on the rocks or neat. Can be used for mix drinks but that will be a waste of it!

很久沒喝
曾經很愛的Rum

可能這幾年都喝高濃度的
雖然香氣口感都不差
但酒體已經完全無法滿足我

還是拿來做Mojito 吧

Neck pour was decent. After that a sickly sweetness developed. Didn’t like drinking this much sugar without knowing.

Nice deep amber color with a smooth burn finish. Carmel to the nose.

It's an okay rum for a dram or two, held back sweetness, vanilla, wood. Not a fan of added sugar and the slight deception in the marketing of its true age

WITHOUT ICE:
NOSE
First impression when I putted my nose into glass I had a feeling that I have a whiskey in my hand, similar experience I had with Opthimus 25. Strong influence of whiskey oak casks on the first, what is for me personally quite good characteristic. Somewhere our player wears some leather but most of his perfumes he brought us from kitchen. Raisins, caramel, vanilla, apricot, some dried oranges, chocolate, brown sugar. Speaking of sugar, this fellow is very very sweet. 40gr sugar per bottle.

PALATE
Sweet, touch of tobacco makes me smile, with a piece of chocolate bitterness. Maybe coffee bitterness also, a little bit…A little bit ginger with black pepper too. But balance between hints of tobacco, vanilla and oak is P E R F E C T!

FINISH
Once you try it, you will definitely remember it. Long sweet caramel oak taste. Life is sweet with Ron Zacapa 23 Centenaro for sure.

But what if we bring our player on the thin ice?

Or on the fat ice ball like it is in this case?

What we get?

WITH ICE:

NOSE
With large ice ball in the glass our player still reveals some whisky flavors but this time more like blended scotch, or maybe it is problem in me(even if I don’t see that as a problem). I am used to drink blended scotch with ice, so it just reminds me on scotch with ice. After one minute on ice it shows his even better side. Raisins, caramel… Wonderful!

PALATE
With ice I have a feeling that I drink very nice old fashioned. Well balanced aromas of apricot, toffee, sherry cask… But personally what I found as a “problem” is that if you sip it slowly over large ice cube, as it is written on the box, the dilution slowly kills the flavors of rum, and our player lose his game on the ice field, even he had a very good start.

FINISH
Well, good start at the beginning, and by that I mean very good start at the beginning with ice, but at the finish…Big nothing! He lost his game on ice long time before the finish. Or few minutes after start.

Es rico para tomar solo, y tiene buena fama por los artículos que he leido.

After tasting this rum its flavor is so sweet an smooth that I could slowly drink this rum every night before bed and dream of whats its like to be so good.

I think, it should be 9/10 even if people rated you 7,5. Taste and the story is amazing but still a bit overpriced, let say 30% in comparison to Botran 18?