Ron Zacapa 23 Solera

"Premium" rum loaded with sugar. Taste it close to other serious options (for the same price or even much less money) and you'll notice a big difference. Heavy caramel notes and overwelmingly sweetness are all that I remember from drinking it neat.
3/10 because it is a mixing rum advertised as a quality sipping rum.

egyértelműen megállapítottuk, hogy a sznobizmus által felmagasztalt rum, mi is nagy várakozással kortyoltunk bele, talán kár volt (ez volt a második rum, amit kóstoltunk) a SPYTAIL után kóstolni, mert fura pofákat vágtunk az első korty után :)

Price, packaging, botte all is made to attract the eye. But don't open it!
How deceiving is the rum !
In my mind, the greasy note of coconut is the most disapointing taste offre this rum.
Overall, I don't understand the 23 years old, it's a blend not a single barrel ! Time is lost.
The bottle is now empty, the secret is soda, large amounts of the well known soda!

Der Rum wird von vielen gelobt, doch für mich ist er leider nichts. Dafür ist er viel zu "scharf", trocken und würzig.

After years of drinking Captain Morgan's, I decided to step up my game and try Diplomatico. Wow, what a dramatic difference. Having had my eyes (and palate) opened, I opted to try Ron Zacapa. After all, it's being plugged all over the internet. So it must be wonderful, right?

OMG, what a letdown. Sugar-water, anyone? Everything I loved about Diplomatico is missing. The gloriously complex bouquet, the graduated flavors, the satisfying finish . . . gone. And if the other comments are to be believed, this distiller uses additives. Are you kidding? If you're distilling with honor and tradition, why would you ever need additives?

And to add insult to injury, the bottle I purchased cost ten dollars more than the Diplomatico. Sure, the box and bottle are both handsome. But that doesn't compensate for the underwhelming lack of sophistication known as Ron Zacapa 23 Solera.

I only wish I had discovered this website BEFORE I made my purchase. In fact, I was so angry once I read the other reviews I decided to join just so I could enhance the negative rating of this disappointing pollution pretending to be a premium rum. Don't believe the major news outlets that hype Ron Zacapa. THIS is the website that tells it like it is: Ron Zacapa 23 Solera is HIGHLY OVERRATED.

Sugar, sugar, sugar - if this is your first real rum experience no wonder people associate one-legged pirates with rum. Sugar overload, not an authentic rum. Made for masses and it sells. Buy some real Jamaican, Barbadian or an agricole instead :)

Ein Rum ohne Vielseitigkeit und ohne deutlichen Geschmacksnoten. Hergestellt um jedermann zu schmecken....

For the money there are so many other more exiting bottles.

This isn't rum. Oh, wait, it actually IS rum because pretty much anything can be sold as rum since rum consumers are apparently too ignorant/lazy/naive/easily parted with their money/etc to demand the kind of regulations that would exclude this cheap sugary swill from being labelled rum in the first place.

Besides the diabetes-inducing levels of sugar in here there is almost certainly a boatload of other additives, chemical flavourings, and artificial adulterants added as well. And yet, after all that, after having forsaken all their integrity and craftsmanship, the producers still failed to make it taste good. I mean, if you're gonna add sugar, artificial flavours and god knows what else then at least make it delicious! Otherwise what's the point? This is just extremely sweet (so smooth!) booze water that has a bunch of very flat, artificial-tasting rummy notes, eg, caramel, toffee, vanilla, coconut, orange etc. I did my own simple sugar test by placing a few drops on a plate and letting it evaporate. Several hours later an obscene amount of sticky residue remained, so much so that you'd think almost half of the rum was sugar and glycerol. Try it out yourself. By the way, the bottle claims the rum is 40% ABV, but it doesn't taste like it, even with the added sugar taken into account, and I have seen (admittedly amateur) tests that put it around 28-35% ABV... So, yeah, this company sucks so much.

Anyway, on to the more important aspects of this rum. First, it has the number 23 on it, which is a good high number to have written on a bottle of alcohol. Second, it is wrapped in a kind of twine band - very fancy! Third, on the label there are some gold medals denoting some kind of awards. From these three facts alone you immediately know that you're getting a quality product...

Okay, okay, I know I'm being kinda snobby and pretentious, but if people were a little more discriminating and demanded the kind of transparency that would allow one to know exactly what it is they're consuming then perhaps we'd all start getting the quality we're already paying for. The price for this dreck is absurd. Look, I don't want to stop people from drinking this shite, I just want it labelled correctly so that brilliant, fascinating, handsome people with exceptionally refined tastes will only ever see it where it belongs - on the bottom shelf in the liqueur aisle.

Expensive expensive for what really is....no quality blend solera Fancy merchandicing...

with a can of Coca-Cola, lots of ice and a lemon in a disco you can enjoy ... hangover assured .. no doubt ..