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Yolo Gold 10-Year rum

Yolo Gold 10-Year

Panama | Gold | 40% ABV

7.9/10
8 ratings
Recommendable to most
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8 Yolo Gold 10-Year Ratings

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Tom 🇺🇸 | 230 ratings
Posted over 6 years ago

Another fine presentation of how rum should be! Rum Master Don Pancho Fernandez and his Cuban influence, has produced a wonderful rum that has earned numerous awards. This rum is smooth and flavorful which gets most of its complexity from being aged for 10years in charred American oak barrels!
This is meant to be enjoyed straight and savored slowly!

Paul B 🇺🇸 | 472 ratings
Posted over 1 year ago

I have been waiting to get my hands on this Don Pancho aged blend for years. It has now finally appeared within reach, so I bought this one along with the Silver Rum. I was not expecting much at this low price of $29 US. However, it blew me away!

So how does it taste? The aroma is of caramel and vanilla. The taste is super rich and rivals some of my finest rums. It reminds me of E Leon Jimenes 110th Anniversary Rum for cigar lovers, but at less than half the price. No burn at all. No bitter finish. I actually like this one better than the 18 year old Origenes from Don Pancho.

This quote from the Denver distributor's company website sums it up best:
"Yolo 10 Year Aged Rum is made with molasses from hand-harvested sugar cane and a
proprietary yeast, distilled in copper column stills and then aged in charred American
Oak barrels of uniform size. Each barrel is hand selected by legendary master rum
distiller, Francisco “Don Pancho” Fernandez from his own private collection spanning
decades. Renowned for his exacting standards, Don Pancho true-age-dates Yolo Rum by
the age of the youngest rum in the blend, meaning the youngest rum in the 10 Year Aged
is 10 years old." Yes, you heard it right! The youngest rum in this blend is 10 years old. How on earth can a rum this good be so cheap?!!!!

I started out rating this as a 7, as I do for each new rum. Then it easily moved up to an 8 through my rankings. Then I told myself that if it tastes similar to that Dominican Republic rum that I rated as a 9, then this one deserves a 9 rating as well. I gradually moved it up until it is now my all time best buy and beating out Blackwell's Reserve..

My advice to the company in Denver is to leave that stupid cardboard label off from the
neck because it insults the intelligence of true rum lovers. We all know that rum is gluten free because no grains are used in the process.

By the way, the Gold for this rum is for the color of the top, while the Silver is also the color of the top. Both of these corks can be quite slippery to grab. The color of this rum is almost black.

After note one week later: I decided to compare this rum to another Don Pancho rum in my collection. That one happens to be my all time favorite that I rated as a 10, Selvarey Owner's Reserve. Amazingly, the taste of the two is almost exactly the same except for the finish. The Selvarey has a super smooth finish. This one has a slight after burn on the finish. However, I can buy 5 bottles of this Yolo Gold for the same price as the $150 Selvarey. I have wisely stocked up on Yolo Gold and may not replace my bottle of Selvarey when it is finally gone.

Update January 30, 2024: I finally found this gem of a rum at a great price about a year ago. I have bought more than a dozen bottles since then. I would say that I like it very much. Well, last month I went to my favorite retailer to replenish my stock of these rums. I was told that they will no longer carry them, nor can they order them for me. My face almost fell off!!! So I emailed the company asking where was the closest retailer to me within 400 miles? I never heard back from them. I checked their website again, and these can only be found at a smattering a small mom-and-pop liquor stores in southern Florida, as well as by-the-drink at Outback Steakhouse in these areas. So Yolo Gold is now far out of reach for me. This kind of crap is enough to make me quit drinking!

Update March 2, 2024: I just found out last month that my local liquor store no longer carries the Yolo line of rums. I emailed the company and got no response. Apparently, the only place left where one can find any are the few mom-and-pop small liquor stores in Florida, if you are lucky enough that they still have any. It had taken me five years to find this fantastic rum at a very low price, and now this happens. I am so disgusted that I just quit drinking. I will not open any of my three remaining bottles for as long as possible.

BearKing55 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted 4 years ago

First sip took me back to my recent trip to Cuba!
It's nice to have a dark Rum with flavor but not overwhelming nor spiced.
perfect subtle vanilla molasses oak - I normally just sip it straight from a shot glass, but works well in Coke too.

Michael N 🇺🇸 | 72 ratings
Posted almost 6 years ago

Saw this bottle at a local store and looked it up to see how it was rated. Only finding one rating I was dubious, but thought the risk was worth it seeing how the other rating was done by a very experienced rum advocate. Not overly expensive, it’s a great example of what a smooth and flavorful rum should taste like drinking it neat. Gets better the longer it sits.

The Parched Parrot 🇺🇸 | 74 ratings
Posted 11 months ago

Charred oak, carmel, and brown sugar notes with slight baking spice flavors on the finish. Perfect sweetness for me (tendency to the dry side) with not much burning going on. Nice lasting warmth stays in the throat for a while. Hits most of the high points for me!

RumBadger 🇺🇸 | 23 ratings
Posted 1 year ago

This is a fantastic rum by Don Pancho. It’s difficult to find a column still aged rum with no additives, and this is the best I’ve found. It’s better than FDC 12, and better than Don Pancho’s Origenes 8 (which is dosed and noticeably sweeter) It’s everything you would want in an aged column still rum.

Alas 🇵🇷 | 499 ratings
Posted 2 years ago

So nose is caramel smells a little off like artificial, then the taste is bitter and rough for a 10yr, finishes like burnt caramel

DucksFan16 🇺🇸 | 52 ratings
Posted 5 years ago

Another decent rum, nothing spectacular but not bad.




Brand Details

Name: Gold 10-Year
Years Aged: 10
ABV: 40%
Type: Yolo
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No