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Posted
over 7 years ago
Coffee, vanilla, not very long finish without personnality. A good one for cocktail or rocks & coke.
Quote : 6.5
Posted
over 7 years ago
Quite a decent rum, first try is really sharp aftertaste, second try gives a smooth feel. The aroma of the wooden casks. Can be sipped.
Posted
7 years ago
Very decent, very smooth rum, with wide sugary sweetness and body with hints of coffee and sweet spice. It has very slight after taste burn. I recommend this one as good bargain with high benefit cost. It's very drinkable rum, decent mixer and simple sipper (with no distinctive or surprising taste, however).
Posted
almost 8 years ago
The Dominicans scored big with this one! I can't believe all the poor or so-so ratings. This rum is fantastic. It's good iced cold and it also makes a punchy rum and coke. This should serve as the standard for "Anejo" rums! It is very balanced, starts with a nice rum bite, finishes smooth with a very subtle sweetness, and is not over oaked. The aroma lingers in the nose and the pallet for a while maintaining a vanilla and nutty finish. Molasses, fruit, and sugar are not the centerpiece of this Anejo. This is a "hotter" more punchy aged rum.
Posted
over 8 years ago
As always I taste my rum neat. Not a full bodied smooth rum but no overpowering alcohol or burn which is not bad for a rum priced pretty much on par with a Havana club blanco. Spicy and not overly sweet. Pretty decent.
Posted
over 2 years ago
This is one of my favourites and there is always a bottle at home.
Its a great rum for its price, at least here in Sweden. Great in a rum and coke and decent enough to sip.
We picked up at least a case of this at the supermarket in DR for drinking every day and all day. Good straight, great mixed, and it was only like 8 bucks or so. Hard to remember for some reason.
A simple, non-oaky, lightly aged, and lightly colored basic rum similar to bacardi gold, but smoother and slightly more complex.
Mixed with lime and coke, sugar and lime (daquiri), and san pelligrino lemon-ade seltzer. It never got old, unlike the DR's most popular beer, El Presidente, which was hard to drink by the third day (but not impossible ;)
Ganska spritig rom med trevlig eftersmak. Helt klart godkänd med tanke på det låga priset
Posted
over 3 years ago
I have recently decided to give rum a serious try and as the odds decided I started my rum endeavour with the Barcelo Gran Anejo. Initially I was really happy with the taste and in hind side I think it was a good rum to start with. Now that I have tried some more rums from the high quality palette I would give it an average rating. It is a good rum and once in a while I still drink a sip of it on the rocks, but for the pure taste I would pick another one.
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The kid brother to the Imperial
6
/10
out of 10
Doing a side by side taste test against the Ron Barcelo Imperial, one can taste how they both have the same starting base. However, this kid brother is a bit harsh with no notable flavors. This turns it into a $17 bottle of cheap sipping rum that is hard to find. Even if it were readily available, I would not buy it again. I don't regret buying it because at least I can see that this distiller is honest. It won't go to waste and there is nothing repulsive about it.
Update Feb 21, 2018: There is absolutely no ill effect whatsoever after drinking too much of this rum, probably due to it having no added sugar. It's not really so bad at all being a human guinea pig, since the after effects are what really shows up on how good a rum really is.
This now brings me to four distillers that I have tried from the Dominican Republic that I can wholeheartedly trust for both taste and having no after effects: Vizcaya, Opthimus, Barcelo, and Matusalem. I am on the fence when it comes to Kirk & Sweeney and will never touch another bottle of Brugal (their Anejo is the only rum that I tried that earned my rating of 1). This rum would have gained a point if it were not for it's rather bland taste.