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Guatemala | Aged | 40% ABV | Column Still (1-4)
Ron Zacapa 23 Solera Rum was created in 1976 in the highlands of Guatemala, where it is distilled in a copper-lined column still from fresh cane juice before solera aging.
The 500 year-old Spanish Sistema Solera method is used to age Ron Zacapa 23 in white oak casks. This results in a combination of rums aged between 6 and 23 years.
The current Ron Zacapa 23 bottle features a woven band around the middle, which is in reference to the original hand woven palm leaf petate bottle cover that covered the bottle.
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Posted
almost 8 years ago
An easy drinking sweet rum with a warming flavour. The alcohol comes through when drinking straight.
I thought this would be tastier...not as smooth as less expensive rum.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
A good place to start. Sweet and easy to find. Has been my go to rum but will be moving on from it. Might keep a bottle around at the right price.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
My wife like it too.
Taste fine and not to strong.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
I received a bottle of this rum from my wife just because she loves me. I must say I was blown away at how tasty this rum is. My nose is not too good at picking all those things out so I won't bother trying.....But the taste, was so sweet and rich, and smooth going down. It does have a bourbon type quality for me and that is even more of a plus. Neat/ An Ice Cube or 2 both work well....I also did try it with a tiny splash of Giner Ale and was not disappointed.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
When you're sitting at home and just want something good to enjoy with your favorite show, then the Zacapa 23 Solera is the perfect choice. It has amazing spicy flavour of dark treacle, and isn't too expensive. The only detractor might be that it is slightly too sweet, so you don't want to have this as your only bottle.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
I had heard a lot of zacapa. And as i sip, i like it, but i did not love it. So i was a littlebit disapointed because my excpextations where to high.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
On the sweet side, apparently the product of fresh sugar cane and honey. A very nice dark amber. Enjoyed neat in a snifter.
Yes it tastes great. No it is not a genuine aged rum. The XO version is IMO less sweet and more what this rum should be, but the 23 has been sweetened to make it more appealing to the American palate. Also, this is not a 23 yr old rum, it is a Solera blend of aged rum the OLDEST of which is 23 yrs, the average age is closer to 6-8 years
Posted
almost 8 years ago
My first rum. So good that I started my love for rum. Sweet and nice
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Ron Zacapa 23 Solera Gran Reserva 40% (Guatemala)
Eye: Light amber with green lip
Nose: Very sweet, round and even nose with a fine mix of marzipan, dark and light chocolate, butter scotch, honey, treacle, dates, apricot and lots of embrowned butter. A veritable fat sugar chock! At next nose there are a faint gun powder scent and vanilla, new cut tobacco and oiled teak. Very smooth, very sweet.
Mouth: Again, very sweet, sticky and rather short. Appealing ethanol at the end. Honey, marzipan and quince. A tad unrefined, on the verge of being simple. It´s not without its´ point but tend to appear as simplistic with a clear taste of pure sugar.
Reaction: Very difficult to define the nuances apart from what has already been said. It tastes alright and I am certain there are times it suits well if something sweet is needed, but really, that´s it. At the same time I pour again and again. It´s very drinkable but for the same reason I eat too much candy. The price is affordable and the access very good. It was one of the first rum I tasted and at that time I found it to be delicious so maybe I just had a bad day grading it.
82p
Price: 499 SEK
Tasted: 2016, in a Riedel Sommelier Cognac XO glass at room temperature.