Pyrat XO Reserve

If i want an orange liquor, i would not buy a bottle of rum.
If i want a vanilla liquor, i would not buy a bottle of rum.

So why should i buy these?

One star for nice bottle with its lanyard and the tag.

They missed the mark with this one. Pretty heavy on the Citrus, but too oily to be balanced within its realm. More syrup than flavor. It has been incorporated into a few of my tiki cocktails, but with a balancing force, such as a young white rum. In this way it can be useful, but as a sipper its not for me.

Actually I think I just insulted brush cleaner, at least it has a purpose in life and lives up to its claim. And bc doesn't smell too bad either, but to be honest I don't know how bc tastes. Unfortunately, in the case of this so called rum the taste is unforgettable.

Not fond of too tasty rums but this one is a crap .

If I wanted an orange liqueur I would have bought a bottle of Cointreau. As rum goes, this is masquerading as something it isn't. It's not rum as I would recognise it, so get's a rating of 1. As a spirit, it isn't that bad, it just that I can't consider a rum to taste of oranges.

This rum(?) tastes like a case load of rotten oranges left on a dock in Jamaica during the hot season and the monsoon season, then cheap ass alcohol is poured into the case and left for another year on the dock. Even a worse taste combination than jagger with red bull.

I can barely detect that this even has rum as a base. Doctoring rums with unlabelled additives is the rum world's dirty secret but this one takes the mickey. They don't even attempt to be subtle. Other rums, like Matusalem for example, integrate the additives so you can con yourself into believing that it's just possible that vanilla note comes from the oak barrel or whatever. But this is just BANG in your face orange flavouring, gallons of sugar syrup and some other smoothing agents that coat your tongue. It is to real rum what WKD is to vodka. All of this is just fine if you know what you're buying and happen to like it.but the price tag is quite another thing - it's not worth more than 10-12 quid in my view. Certainly not rum for people who like actual rum I'm afraid.

Le pire rhum vieux que j'ai jamais eu l'occasion de goûter, non pas qu'il soit agressif ou qu'il brûle la langue mais son "fumet" m'a clairement rebuté. Un nez évoquant le fumier plus que désagréable, je ne pensais pas que l'on puisse élaborer liqueur si imbuvable.
J'aurais bien deux mots à dire au maître de chais.

Absolutely superb package - leather case, great bottle, little brass plate with Hoti (god of bartenders), true pirates thing, BUT the drink itself is one of the worst i ever had.
I tried it neat, on rocks, cooled with cooling cubes, left it to sit, i reeeealy wanted to like it, but nope, its horrible.
You may notice i called it a drink, not rum, because to call that bleach a rum is an insult even to those cheap supermarket cooking "rums".

Quite possibly there is some rum in there. But it is so heavily flavoured that it could just as well be neutral alcohol with flavours.
Smell and taste both are sweet and orange-ish. Not the sort of subtle orange one might get as part of the interaction of rum and wooden cases, but rather in-your-face orange; as one might expect from an orange liqueur. Other flavours are some of cinnamon and nutmeg. And too much sugar.

Way too expensive for what it is. If they have actually used good quality rum (which I doubt), it has been ruined by the flavouring.

Buy a cheap orange liqueur instead. If you must, mix that with some sort of not-too-pricey rum.