The nose isn’t bad, but not especially remarkable either. There’s loads of vanilla and some caramel plus wood and a touch of clove. It’s sweet but kind of funky smelling. The taste is not as sweet, coming in somewhere between cane juice and Demerara sugar. There’s quite a bite to it for only 43% ABV, and it burns a bit going down. Oaky vanillans dominate as this rum has spent some time in ex-bourbon barrels and has not had any sugar added before bottling. There’s a slight grassiness to it, and a touch of fennel seed and black pepper. The body is pretty good, with a nice velvety slick mouthfeel, albeit a bit thin, and the legs aren’t bad either. The finish is very dry, woody, semisweet, and spicy with a hint of mineral and earth. Nose: 7 Taste: 7 Body: 7 Finish: 7
About this bottle
This rum bottling previously had no age statement, but was widely known to have been aged at least 10 years. This Bajan rum is distilled at the Foursquare Distillery and adds no sugar pre-bottling. The packaging must be noted as it is black glass and appears to be melting.
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Neat. Nose is rich molasses, dried fruit, wood, touch of phenols baking spices, and vanilla. Taste is true to nose. Starts with molasses/dark brown sugar sweetness. Dark, dried fruitiness, then some nice wood notes of oak, vanilla, slight dessert spices, a little tobacco, nuttiness, and hogo for interest.. It becomes more sweet, but more toward saccharine, which lasts through the dry finish along with some wood tannins, and a touch of pepper and hot cinnamon. Complex, but balanced and nothing offensive. Sweet, but finishes dry. Give it plenty of air time as it gets more complex as it sits in the glass. Great sipper that I'll keep around.
It's been a while since I started my spirit journey with Diplomatico Reserva rum. I'm 99% whiskey these days but occasionally I dive back in. The Saint Theresa didn't impress much and barely got a 3 star. This I really enjoyed. Lovely viscosity, not to sweet (for a rum) and very good balance between the alcohol and flavour. Rich with character it says in the blurb and I agree. Also cheap at under $50USD a bottle here. 4 rounding up to 4.25 with VFM taken into account.
On ice. This is like liquid rum cake. When warm the alcohol is a little hot, but that's the first thing to go as it cools. It's so buttery it coats your lips. It would feel almost too dessert-y if it didn't dry up fairly quick and leave you with some allspice and black pepper. And the butterscotch flavor seems genuine. You could sip this after dinner in a snifter but on ice is perfect for me, you get a full range of character
The nose is full and smoky. The palate has some sweetness that tends toward light caramel mixed with plenty of wood. It tastes a bit on the young side, withy he flavors not being fully integrated. It's good, but nothing spectacular. Given its only mild complexity, if like it to be smoother. I do appreciate the dry tannins and not being overly sweet, but it has that lightness and minerality that Evan Williams Black does.
A rather subdued nose that elicits aromas of banana, pineapple, buttery oak, and brown sugar. Upon tasting, there is some mild sweetness on the palate that reveals tastes of brown sugar and banana before the alcohol burn cuts in, fades into a sugar cane and very slight buttery residual. Finish is short and clean. Goes down very easily and does not demand attention.
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