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Aficionado | Member since 2017 | Australia

51 Ratings | 45 Likes

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Kirk and Sweeney 12-year

Surprise - You can bottle away from source and do it well. This is an excellent rum. When I was given a bottle of this I was skeptical but it blew my socks off. It has character and complexity, is a great sipp

Appleton Estate Rare Blend 12-year

Where You Go For Your Hogo In the rum world you may hear people mention the word Hogo. Have a sip of this and you'll understand what it means. It's like a deep funky bassline fr

Foursquare 2005 Port Cask Finish 9-year

Just Unbelievably Delicious This shows what you can do to make rum special without adding extra sugar. That Auburn looking liquid strongly evokes the port cask it was aged in. It

Doorly's ABV43 12-year

Smooth And Dry Like A Favourite Pebble You've Had All Your Life This is an exceptional rum. It is complex but not overpowering. Every time you sip it you'll find something new. It's rare for a rum to pull off a rea

Mount Gay XO Extra Old

Best Value for Money in Australia There is nothing better than this for the price. You can head upstream but there's diminishing returns for the amount of money you have to spend. I ha

Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-year

Great Readily Available Agricole This would be a great place to start trying agricole. It's probably the most similar to molasses rum you'll find in the agricole group. Absolutely del

El Dorado 12-year

Still a decent rum despite it's sordid adultery This rum got me hooked. It was the first aged rum I had and as a bit of a sweet tooth it floored me. I have to thank it for getting me into the world

El Dorado 8-year

Probably one of the best mixers This is solid stuff, perfect for mixing and making exceptional cocktails. In some ways it's actually better than the 12, less added sugar, more comple

Appleton Estate Extra 12-year

Now For Something Completely Different This is a strange beast because in many ways it's the least Appleton Estate of all their rums. You could be forgiven for thinking it was actually from

Havana Club 3-year

The Benchmark White Rum Mixer This will make your mojito's and daiquiris better. this will make any white rum cocktail better. It's actually got flavour. So many white rums are so

RL Seale ABV 43 10-year

You Little Beauty! The bottle actually tells the story. This is a well thought out and perfectly executed rum. On the nose it's very sweet and you think you're going to

Dictador Solera Distillery Icon Reserve 20-year

A Great Exponent of The Solera Method I think this is currently a better exponent of the Solera method than the Ron Zacapa. I know, blasphemous! This doesn't feel that it has been adultera

Millonario Reserva Especial 15

Pretty Good Fare I know it's sweet but every time I have a sip it surprises me a little bit. It's more complex than I expect. I would choose this over Zacapa. They are

Gosling's Black Seal

Great dark rum It is what it is. The classic black rum. I feel that they may be losing their traditional style to a more corporate polished product but it's still de

Plantation Barbados 5-year

This rum changes every year It's hard to rate this because every year there's a new bottle and a new style. It's definitely been getting sweeter and sweeter. When I first tried t

Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva

Beautiful but just a little too sweet This is delicious and I would use it to get people into rum. It's incredibly smooth. But after a while and after you've experienced enough rums you ma

Pampero Aniversario Reserva Exclusiva

Interesting but overpriced in Australia This rum is interesting because it's just a bit too good to be used as a mixer and while it sips nicely it's not as good as other rums you can find fo

Ord River Premium 2-year

Good Australian Rum There's not a huge amount of choice for rum in Australia despite the conditions being almost perfect for making it. Bundaberg has a stranglehold on th

Mount Gay Eclipse

Good mixer Use it on people who don't appreciate rum and in cocktails.

Ron Zacapa 23 Solera

Don't Understand The Fuss It's nice, that's true. It's smooth, that's true. It's the best in the world, that's not true. I think before this was bought by Diageo and turned int

Plantation XO 20th Anniversary

It's overpriced and too sweet. The big issue with this rum is it's supposed to be a combination of Barbadian rums but it tastes nothing like any other barbadian rums. Supposedly age

Havana Club 7-year

Perfect for cocktails especially a dark and stormy It's not the most complex or beautiful rum but it's nice and in most bars around the world (except for the US). Great in a dark in stormy or with ging

Not Worth The Price It's good but for this price you could get 3 bottles of significantly better rum.

Havana Club Anejo Especial

Standard Fair This is just a standard rum. For an Australian, this shits on Bundaberg but it needs to be mixed.

Appleton Estate V/X

Good Standard Rum This is a pretty good drink. No added sugar and so it's got a bit of a burn and it's not super smooth but it's good rum.

Appleton Estate Reserve

A good mixture no distinct or unique taste but still solid This is a pretty good drink. No added sugar and so it's got a bit of a burn and it's not super smooth but it's good rum. Probably too many rums used t

You Can Taste the ex-Bourbon Oak and the ex-Sherry Casks It's a nice rum but just not worth the price. While you can taste that it has been aged twice and it gives this rum quite a unique style It just doesn

A Good Rum This is not a great rum and not a bad rum. It's a good rum. It's smooth and has a strong caramel taste. It's much nicer than pretty much all the Bacar

Rum Diary Spiced

A simple spiced rum A spiced rum like any other basic entry. Basically you take a rum and imbue it with all the mulled wine qualities. Quite sweet.

Pusser's British Navy Blue Label ABV40 3-year

Marketing trumps taste The story behind it is great and to be honest I think I bought it for the romance involved around the rum rations. I wouldn't buy again, for this pric

Matusalem Gran Reserva 15-year

Not As Good As Advertised But Good Cuban Fare With that ambiguous age statement you straight away know that this rum is all about appearances and marketing. Sure the average age of the rums used i

Kraken Black Spiced

Great Marketing - Average Rum Too sweet, must have colouring in it to make it that black. Wouldn't buy again and I wish people would stop giving it to me.

Appleton Estate Signature Blend

I Don't Get It? I don't get Appleton's labelling system, they have so many different rums but if this is really their signature blend then they need to sort their shi

Not as good as the medals is supposedly has Based on the promotion you expect a lot more. It's nowhere near as good as a good cuban white and certainly miles off the premium whites. But it's ok.

Capricorn Spiced 2-year

Alternative to Bundy but not much better It's definitely better than the usual bogan firewater but still not something you'll be savouring.

Cocktails for unliked guests only You wouldn't drink it neat and you wouldn't serve it to someone you liked in a cocktail. But if you're making lots of cocktails or batch making them t

Sailor Jerry Spiced

Is This Even Rum? Most bars have it, many people love it. I'm unsure if it could be called rum. Great job on the marketing and for people living in Australia it's bette

Don Papa Small Batch

Marketing Masterpiece The rum is crap the marketing is impeccable. Don't waste your money unless you're looking to add the bottle design to your collection. This thing is s

Myers's Original Dark

Truly Strange Experience I don't know what to say about this. It's a truly strange experience. It just tastes really weird. It doesn't taste like it was made how rum is normal

Bacardi Carta Blanca

It's Not A Sipper But It's Also Not A Great Mixer This is probably the most pervasive rum in the world. It's used in bars everywhere. It's probably also the rum with the highest production levels too.

Don Papa 10-year

What's it been doing for 10 years This is not that much of an improvement on the normal Don Papa. If anything it seems they've just added some darker sugar and black food colouring. Ag

Bacardi Superior

It Is What It Is This is probably the most pervasive rum in the world. It's used in bars everywhere. It's probably also the rum with the highest production levels too.

Bundaberg Mutiny

Give this to your rum friends and they will commit mutiny This is the sort of thing you keep for people you don't care about. It's a classic shitty spiced rum. Sweet and pathetic. Needs to be mixed to be enjo

Bundaberg Darren Lockyer 6-year

Truly Great Player - Truly Horrible Rum I feel sorry for Darren Lockyer. Well I mean he probably made a killing with this but still to lendyour name to this. I think I'd rather have a range

Bundaberg 8-year

8 Years for this It's amazing that they even bothered ageing this. If you want to pay top dollar for absolute trash then this is a really good option.

Bundaberg Original UP

Petrol, Paint Thinner, Hints of Paraffin Oil Really just don't. It is the national spirit but even that won't be enough to get you to enjoy this. I don't know why anyone would think an underproof

Captain Morgan Original Spiced Gold

Diageo Sugar Bomb Legitimately just a Diageo bottle of sugar and artificial flavours.

Tanduay Philippine

You Probably Need To Be Desperate Myths and Stories abound in the Philippines about Tanduay and what it will do to you. The ones I've heard include. - Gives you the worst headache

This Isn't Really Rum I found this in the Philippines on a business trip once and bought it because it was about $3 in the convenience store. I've been unable to get rid of

Bundaberg Overproof

Just Don't This is one rum you don't need to drink. Just a whiff it in your mate's coke from across the room will be enough to kill vast quantities of your brain

Why 5 Years? Why they needed to age this five years I don't know. Maybe the ageing process really bought out the deep methylated spirits burn on your nose and thro

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