Rhum Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Speciale 8 Year Old Rum 700ml Bottle

Great, didn’t take long getting to me either… hold on buying some more now.

A long time back this was the first tasting rum I at any point attempted politeness of a companion (and theological school flat mate). His sister was associated with a human services activity in Haiti; they were actually selling jugs of this on the landing area in Port-au-Sovereign to travelers barricading withdrawing flights...so she picked a jug for everybody in the family and her sibling was liberal enough to share. That was right around 10 years prior however and once upon a time when standard packaging Producer's Imprint was the acceptable stuff" for me...so how can it stack up now? Entirely great things being what they are. This is a somewhat increasingly lean and somber style of rum - in case you're a wine consumer this is a Chablis (a genuine one from France) not an oaky California chardonnay. The nose highlights ocean salt fuel (in a decent sort of way) and wet record in addition to lush sugar stick (like a rhum agricole) caramel and barrel roast. The sense of taste is medium bodied with an underlying assault of sugar stick (once more as rhum agricole) green greenness with a trace of flame broiled pineapple; the mineral notes move in close to the get done with only a smidgen of liquor warmth. For a $30-ish jug of rum there's a great deal to appreciate here and it's notably one of a kind. This wouldn't be an awful passage point into rum for a bourbon consumer hoping to stretch out particularly for a devotee of sea impacted single malts."