Matusalem Platino

A smell of sugary ethanol, flat and simple. Taste is harsh and a bit like cough syrup. Finish is short and bitter. To me this is pretty much comparable to Bacardi Superior, maybe just a tad better.

Bought it after reading relatively good reviews but all regular agricoles shit over this. Seriously. It’s ok and has some unexplained character but it’s plain and boring. Something is not right. Had an open Mount Gay Eclipse next to it and the MG felt like a 9 star rum.

Performs badly in coctails as well. Will stash it under the bed and try again in a couple of years

Toto je moje ochutnávka třetího bílého rumu v životě. Objednal jsem jej spolu s Matusalem 15 Gran Reserva v akci 1+1. Už jeho vůně nebyla moc příjemná a byl moc cítit alkohol. Chuť to jen potvrdila a tak jsem zbytek nedopité skleničky na ochutnání, smísil s kolou, kterou mám naštěstí skoro pořád doma. Pak už chuť byla vynikající. Nikdy bych nevěřil, že to takto může dopadnout.

Tasted at Laka Lono 8/7/22
Aroma: Elmer's glue. Paste. True fact, I am not making this up.
Smells worse than it tastes, so that is a plus.
Mix this with, do not drink this neat, and pretend it really is Cuban.

at just 40% ABV it s too much alcohol burn and almost nothing else, you ll easily find cheaper and better mixers !

Taste neat is spot on for rubbing alcohol. Ok as a mixer, but probably could also double as an antiseptic for bee stings or mosquito bites.🤷‍♂️

Having had the older Matusalem 18 Solera Blender and it being an acceptable to actually pretty decent Cuban style rum, I picked up this bottle to use for Mojitos and perhaps an occasional Daiquiri. First, though I wanted to give it a run straight to see what kind of rum I am mixing with. The reviews I have seen for this in other places have been decently favorable, even if nothing outstanding.

Matusalem, like other Cuban rum exiles, has a long story. Originally it was one of the most famous rum producers in Cuba operating out of Santiago de Cuba. Like many others, the owners fled during the revolution. Unlike some of the others though, it took a while for Matusalem to recover and rebuild. They moved from island to island, and then to Florida, before finally settling and rebuilding out of the Dominican Republic. The one thing I find odd about Matusalem is that they don’t say where the sugarcane for their rum is sourced. Anyway, they now produce a long line of rums supposedly using their original formula and methods from Cuba.

From what I can find this is a molasses based column distilled rum that has been “triple distilled” and then aged using the Solera process for an unknown period of time (some places say an average of 10 years but I find that very difficult to believe). The rum is then apparently “double filtered”, though I can’t find any information about their filtration process. In fact, I am having a hard time locating really any information about this rum beyond vagaries. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I would rather like to know about what it is that I am drinking. Ultimately the question is: is it good and will it work for the purpose I got it?

The nose is not especially expressive, and to my senses not especially pleasant. First, I get light pencil shavings followed by a bit of lime and sawdust. Beyond that all I get is alcohol and tinged nostrils.

The palate is unfortunately not much better. It is simply lime and alcohol, with the former being slightly more expressive than the latter (thankfully).

The finish is both lacking and frankly a bit unsettling. It starts with slight Menthol and leaves with a note akin to licking an antiseptic alcohol wipe.

No this will not do. Not only am I unimpressed, I am slightly perturbed. I poured out the rest of the sample (but it is not so bad that I am immediately pouring out the entire bottle). This screams late 90s, early 2000s “jet fuel” Bacardi. However, the are producing this rum, they need to change it. It’s not just uninteresting, it’s outright bad to my tastes (and I feel like I am pretty forgiving). I am not sure what to do with the rest of this bottle. Maybe I can take it to a tailgate and leave it for others to do with what they will. I just don’t think this will work even for Mojitos, which is a basic requirement for white Cuban style rums in my cabinet. I don’t mean to be overly harsh here, but standards have generally been raised across the rum industry and even at its most basic this is just not up to par.

Short Description: A poor man’s Bacardi Superior from circa 2002

ABV 40%

Country of Origin: Dominican Republic

Nose: light Pencil shavings, Lime, Sawdust, Alcohol

Palate: Light lime, Alcohol

Finish: Menthol, Alcohol wipes

No lo recomiendo ni para hacer coctelería, no tiene las escencias basicas de un ron.