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This is some seriously good “flavored” rum! It is great neat, on the rocks, and surprisingly good with a Pepsi. Not too sweet at all, but all that amazing chocolate aroma and flavor. I was hesitant to purchase it, but it was only $26, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I was not disappointed, and neither was my wife, who is only a rum drinker when it’s mixed. She liked the smooth flavor with only a slight lingering burn, but long lasting cacao taste.
Who knew this combination would be so enticing? Typically rum is associated with vanilla flavor but the chocolate is unique and special. This is very smooth and complex and is perfect for after dinner. So far have only seen it in California, but will pick some up next time I am there.
I love the taste of this rum. It’s so chocolaty and smooth. It makes a great Cold Brew Martini
Brought this to my friends house. He's a scotch/bourbon snob - gotta be cask strength, single malt, yada yada. He was skeptical but this rum blew him away. We drank almost half the bottle after dinner. Great digestif. You can taste the aging/woody notes. Chocolate is spot on, not overpowering or too sweet. Loved it!
Selvarey Cacoa is a quality rum from start to finish.
Sugar: estimated at 28 - 30 gpl.
Normally a flavoured rum uses a cheap rum as the base and then adds the sugar and spice mix to mask the harshness. Not this rum! It's starts with a very smooth 5 year old Panamanian Rum and then infuses the rum with real chocolate flavour. I don't know how, but the chocolate aroma and flavour is authentic. I know that's an odd thing to say but an empty glass sits on the desk and I keep getting the smell of chocolate chips in the air. This rum is extremely smooth and well balanced. No bite, no chemical aftertaste, just a long slow and very pleasant warming. I tried this rum several days in a row and there was a brandy and orange taste in the background of the rum that I couldn't quite figure out, then it hit me Gran Marnier! That explains the brandy and orange taste as well as the colour of the rum. I continued to taste this rum and shared most of the bottle with friends. The ladies loved this rum straight up, and that's a great compliment from Wine and Rum Punch drinkers. Coffee, dessert, and Selvarey Cacoa, or skip the dessert and just go for the Selvarey.
Tasting note: Let this rum air out for a few minutes in your glass.
This rum works for me. Great a a dessert rum, with the hint of chocolate.
Smooth cacao front with a nice soft vanilla/cane sugar finish. Perfect sipping rum when you’re in the mood for desert
Tonight’s Rum, Selvarey Cacao from Panama. Selvarey starts off rich with a raw chocolate bouquet, perhaps with a bit of vanilla and pineapple. The first hit on the tongue is sweet, not bitter at all, it’s almost like chocolate milk. In the mouth, at rest, It remains mild. Only after you take it in do you notice that it’s actually a Rum and spirit, the sugar cane backing is very hidden. The finish is likewise mild, over notes of chocolate is everywhere. Crème de Cacao comes to mind, but not as strong. Hints of nutmeg, are also noticed. There is little in the way of fruity notes, save for a bit of orange or apricot. That’s good or bad depending on your personal preference. There’s no harsh burn at all in the finish. It’s is a nice mild Rum, and from what I tell, it is best served neat, no ice to dilute the flavor. That’s the way I’ll be fashioning my bottle. Yum. 8 out of 10, #162 or my 500 Rum target.
Flavorful. Like the taste of the cacao. Good straight. Added flavor with a little coke. Smooth going down. Definitely has the Caribbean, Central or South American flavour .
You immediately get the aroma of chocolate in the air
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I have seen Selva Rey rums on store shelves for more than a year, but never paid them any attention. Then the owner of my favorite liquor store put small signs under them to designate bargains that were not moving fast enough from the shelves. He added his little comment as usual, this being that these were rums from pop superstar Bruno Mars. Whenever I see that a celebrity who knows little or nothing about distilled spirits and just wants to use his or her name to sell the products, this becomes a red flag for me. I wisely went home and researched reviews for both on this site. He is one of the owners of the company along with three brothers from West Hollywood, California. They searched for two years to find the perfect white rum that can be enjoyed on the rocks. Then they found the legendary Don Pancho in Panama. Now they had my attention! This is the Maestro Ronero who kept the Cuban masses inebriated on the cheap stuff while creating the finest rums for the ruling party. He fled Cuba for Panama in 1993 and has his own distillery there. I brought one of each bottle home today.
Don Pancho found a way to infuse dark chocolate into the white rum while keeping the added sugar content of this flavored rum at less than half of any other flavored rum on the market. I would call it a sweet flavored rum without being a sugar bomb. It tastes like no other rum and if you don't like chocolate, stay away from this one. Their website has LOTS of recipes for mixed drinks for both rums. I would rate it as a mixer, but it can be enjoyed on the rocks. Since I am not really a fan of flavored rums, I can only rate this one as a 6. However, it can be quite seductive for the ladies.
As for my own tastes, after pouring about two shots on the rocks, I decided that it needed a little something extra. I broke out my bottle of Brinley Gold Shipwreck Coconut Rum from St. Kitts. This rum is above average on the coconut flavor but not disgustingly sweet like many of the artificially flavored cheap coconut rums on the market (notice that I hate the term cloyingly sweet!!!). I wisely added only about two TBS of this coconut rum, which greatly improved the drink. This is my own tastes, but this simple test gives you an example of the degree of dark chocolate in this Selva Rey Cacao Rum.