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Posted
almost 6 years ago
Sampled the Atlantico Gran Reserva at Cardiff Rum Festival on the weekend and I must say it's my favourite out of the Atlantico family. I almost purchased a bottle instead choosing the Botran 18 year old instead.
The Gran Reserva is achieved by first distilling 2 separate rums one from molasses another from fresh sugar cane juice, aging them separately then blending and reaging after this double aging the blend is put into the solera system. It's a thoroughly well aged liquid and it's just so good!
Aromas from both distillations are detectable on the nose there's rich caramel and a grassy freshness too! There's coffee, cacao and charred oak too
Posted
4 years ago
The smell is not special, but I like the balance of the aromas. It's good for the price.
I think the mix of agricole and molasses rum is well accomplished. If you like Plantation XO this is your entrance in the Agricole world.
The taste is a little bit young, sweet and bright. I get coconut, paper, bitter notes and vanilla.
There are not much agricole aromas.
Smell: paper, coconut, sugar syrup, vanilla, gras, vanilla, some berries
Taste: coconut, paper, tannins, vanilla, young wood, some light bitterness and spice
Finish: middle long, sugar, spice, coconut, wood remains on the palet
Sweetness: 3/5
Spice: 2/5
Fruit: 3.5/5
Mildness: 3/5
Value (35€): 3.5/5
Posted
over 4 years ago
Got a sample of this one when I drove from Sweden to Spain and made some stops during the way to buy some rum.
It’s nothing that I should buy, cause it’s too sweet but it’s quite well balanced with lots of vanilla taste together with some fruits.
Picture: The sample at my balcony in Spain.
Posted
7 months ago
Aroma sweet and vanilla with little alcohol burn mixed in. Taste sweet and vanilla with little alcohol burn mixed in. Aftertaste sweet and vanilla with a little alcohol burn mixed in. Guess what??? If you like sweet and vanilla with some alcohol mixed in you might like this rum because that is all you are going to get. It is not awful by any means but all it is, is sweet vanilla with alcohol mixed in, despite what he bottle says about notes of toffee, caramel and oak.
Posted
2 years ago
En helt okej rom. God smak som är söt och vanilj. En bra vardagsrum.
Posted
3 years ago
Did not think it'd be as smooth as I thought. Very good from beginning to end.
Posted
over 3 years ago
In taste is like velvet with touch of mixture of sweet spicies.
Posted
almost 4 years ago
Not as smooth as the Private Cask. Has a nice initial mix of spices and vanilla. However after breathing the vanilla completely takes over and it becomes way too sweet
Posted
4 years ago
This is one the best rums i have drank. The taste of sugar cane, carmel and vanilla notes are evident. Very smooth and no bitter burn.
Posted
almost 6 years ago
It's cluttered and there is no order to the displays, but Old Town Liquor and Deli had a nice rum selection; including the Atlantico Gran Reserva. The rum had a nice caramel flavor and I preferred it straight to to mixed.
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Every now and then I don't mind something sweet, but really, this is far too sweet. I looked up on the Rum Project and see Atlantico have in the past added a huge amount of sugar. While this one is not listed in their records, I reckon it is well up there with the most doctored rums.
It is a shame as I reckon that there is enough there to be so much nicer without the sweetness. There is a lovely burn from the alcohol (which personally I always like), with a good dose of wood from American oak. But the vanilla, toffee and caramel masks a lot of the fruit. What appealed to me was that it says that it is distilled from fresh cane juice and molasses. Unfortunately the distillate from the cane is not easy to see at all.
Nice packaging and all, a nice burn of alcohol and smooth and easy to drink, but ultimately it is like an alcoholic Baileys.Ultimately disappointing, but I hope that this newly opened bottle might blossom further down the line.