Santiago de Cuba Añejo

Nose: Sweet and heavily featuring molasses and brown sugar. Some trace fruity notes (banana mainly) and a little caramel. Palate: Sweet and carrying on with the sugary notes from the nose. Finish: Short and sweet. A pretty simplistic medium-dark rum that is not really up to sipping neat - very much a mixer, but with such a sweet profile that in combination with cola or fruit juice it borders on cloying, almost sickly. This is very cheap in Cuba, and is one of the cheapest imported rums you can buy in Australia. It's OK over lots of ice with soda, a dash of bitters and a slice of lemon. Pretty much the rum equivalent of Johnnie Walker Red Label - acceptable when correctly used as a mixer. "Adequate" : 72/100 (2 stars)

The smell is weird mostly of alcohol maybe a hint of vanilla or molasses. The taste is sweet at first you can taste the flavours of ingredients mentioned above. Maybe good for blends.

Aromas of sugar cane. Wood. Some citrus. Mostly lemon. Flavors right in line. The wood definitely comes on stronger. Aftertaste picks up the sugar nicely.

Простой аромат тростникового рома, чуть карамели, чуть бочки. В этой ценовой категории - отлично.

One of my favourite Cuban rums! Great taste of caramel and bananas.