Black Tot Finest Carribean 5-Year

taste - 8/10
smell - 7/10
sweetness - 7.5/10
price/value rating - 6/10

A light golden colour, cinnamon and orange smell with a hint of tobacco. Good flavour with the fire on the the throat. Left it on the shelf for a while, poured the last glass and the tobacco is now the strong smell with the cinnamon in the background.

First note is the pale yellow color, reminds me of Plantation Trinidad or Guatemala, Mt Gay, or young Jamaican rum. On the nose a mild scent Of Demurra rum maybe Port Mourant, or Versaille still. First sip the Guayana rum comes through instantly, but not intensely, followed by sweet notes. Straight it has a bit more depth and lingers on the pallet.

This is a decent rum, better than Hamilton Navy, or demurra rums, but not worth the north of $60 price tag. I will likely not buy again.

The aroma is very sweet, caramel and sugar, heavy and a little bit sharp.
A heavy body, sweet at first, then more sharp but still nice. The finish is medium long.

Black Tot rum is a "Navy style" blend of Caribbean rum from Guyana, Barbados and Jamaica by Elixir Distillers. It's presented at a respectable 46.2% ABV.

On the nose we have ginger, honey, line zest, grapefruit, oak, vanilla, light strawberry and cherry.

The palate brings some vanilla, and the light strawberry comes through with some oilyness.

The finish is medium in length and has pepper, clove, walnut, oak, mint and is slightly drying.

I like a navy styled rum once in a while and this black tot, finest caribiean seemed appealing enough to warrant a purchase. I will start of by saying that it's not a spectacular rum, but decent for the money if your into this kinda rum. In the glass it's spot on amber and in the nose I get black tea, banana, raisin, burnt brown sugar, citrus and a little bit of musty oak and something remiding me of gunpowder residue. Perhaps comming from barrel char. It's actually a very, very nice nose, that makes me think of worthy park.
The taste however lags a little bit behind the nose. It's not thin, but given the complex notes, it could have benefited from a bit more body. I get subtle treacly molasses, tobacco, cinnamon, dark oak and anise with a bit of peppery hotness on the finish. A nice sipper nonetheless.

Nice taste and not so strong, even with 46.2⁰, a little sweetness on first taste

This is pretty young, but much more cohesive than Smith & Cross for example.
Smell is quite solvent-y with a backdrop of layered sugar. Taste brings up the demerera flavours first - the liquorice and slightly dirty, burnt sugar from DDL - then there's the Bajan element coming in, reminding of typical dry Foursquare. The Jamaican element is pretty subtle. Just a slight touch of funk coming through, yet more noticeable on the finish.

This is young rum. It's flavours are definitely Demerera focused. It's a bit like El Dorado 15 in profile, but younger and fiery, no sugar, and with a finish tempered with Bajan and Jamaican notes.

First time round I only had a sample and I wasn't that impressed, but saw a bottle on special and took a punt that time spent with it would be worth while. And it has been. I'm enjoying this. It's good value, robust in flavour, complex enough to keep me interested. Short of Tiger Shark, this is the best blend I have come across!

Black Tot 46,2 % . Den smager ude mærket, men lader dog også lidt tilbage at ønske.

6/10 c'est la meilleure note que je peut donner à ce rhum.... un peu déçu.