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Posted
over 7 years ago
A interesting rum. Well balanced. Intense aroma, vanilla flavour.
Posted
over 7 years ago
Another great rum form foursquare ! True bajan flavor
Posted
over 7 years ago
This is a okay rom. It is a bit sharp. It is a quite dry rum. Not so much aftertaste. But drinkable if nothing else on the table.
Posted
over 7 years ago
Denne Rom har en ok smag men hvis man ikke er til en Rom der er lidt sprittet skal man ikke vælge den
Posted
over 7 years ago
Meget tør rom, hvor smagen forsvinder hurtig. Kokos vanilje og banan kan anes i smagen
Posted
over 7 years ago
Meget lækkert bekendskab.
God duft.
Dejlig sødme, let fed og sprittet, lidt træ, appelsin og mørk chokolade.
Lækker behagelig eftersmag.
Posted
over 7 years ago
Dates and apricots in the nose. A bit smokey on the tongue, with dates again and licorice. So far, so well. The finishing starts in the same direction, when all of a sudden the burnign of alcool takes over. What a pity! Still: On the better side of rum.
Posted
almost 8 years ago
Reminds me eldorado 12, bit sweeter than Bacardi 8.
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over 8 years ago
The Real McCoy 12-Year Rum tastes younger than other 12 year old rums. I would describe it as unpolished. Yet it has a hint of sweetness to it that reminds me of younger Demerara rums.
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At first the name was a bit of a turn-off. I thought it was a cliche marketing trick of using a recognizable name with positive connotations but no relation to the actually product. I was pleased to learn that the name comes from a 1920s prohibition-era rum runner named Bill McCoy, who never watered-down or adulterated the rum he was selling, thus earning a reputation for himself. They called his spirits "the real McCoy." (The phrase pre-dates Bill, and there is a good amount of marketing storytelling here as there is no direct link between him and the current production, but it's nice to know there's a real story all the same.)
This is a great 12-year-old Bajan rum with no added sugar. Along with the other offerings from Foursquare and Mt. Gay, this makes for a fantastic "benchmark" sipping rum, with notes of oak and dry caramel. Took a few minutes to open up, but once it did, it was very nice, indeed. I think it has quite a bit more character than the NAS MGXO, and is a little dryer than RL Seale's Finest. This is probably also the smoothest of the bunch. To me, RM12 competes with Foursquare's cask series, just without the level of nuance/interest those ones offer.
Compared to the already-excellent Real McCoy 5-year, the taste is very similar, making it difficult to justify the extra expense of the 12. The 12-year is slightly smoother, and has a richer nose of brown/demerara sugar. The 12 is clearly a more refined/enjoyable sipping rum, so grab it if it's within your budget, but I was surprised at just how good the 5 was, so feel no regrets about trying that one instead if your budget's tighter (or if you want an exceptional mixer).
8++
I would love to do a side-by-side tasting with this, Doorly's 12-year (finished in ex-Sherry casks) and RL Seale's Finest—the latter two appearing to be significantly better values from the same distillery. But you can't really go wrong with any of these :)
(PS, I don't understand how anyone could rate this less than a 6, but apparently some have very different standards than the site's rating suggestions. [Also, wow, this rum must have excellent distribution in Denmark!] At the time of this review, the rating without these peculiar outliers would be 8.04, rather than 7.58.)
Update: 8+, 8 :)