El Dorado 21-Year

Rich dried fruits on the nose and palate. Figs, dates and dried apricots. Truly a rum to savour on the special occasions.

Tasted it side by side with the 12 year.
Nose brings dark chocolate cookie. Bold coffee with fruit cake.
Definitely has more oak and a darker toffee taste. Not as sweet as the 12 but a bit more complex in age.

Tastes of aged oak banana walnut bread cinnamon spice and fruit cake.

A Classic

I had a bottle of this rum about a year ago and I must say it was very very good.

The price point is about right, the bottle a little bit different (and interest is always a bonus) and that taste very good.

But in saying that, I was also contrasting it at the time with other rums like Appleton's Estate Joy, with Ron Zacapa XO (both of which will seduce you) and this rum while it punches well above its weight, is not a sipper for non sippers and people that appreciate a good spiced or naval rum who don't just drink rum mixed with coke or in shot glasses will get it and enjoy it a lot more I think.....

I gave this to a few of my friends and while it was clearly a premium rum, I think it may have been a touch on the spicer side for them compared to the seductive vixen that is Ron Zacapa XO they were sipping on earlier. But don't worry about what others think in this sense, cause its genuinely good quality respectable top shelf rum. This seems like the kinda rum you would bust out with your Dad on Christmas eve or something, its got really nice spice to it but its a smooth little operator too and you won't want to squander it.

Well worth buying a bottle at least once, I think in terms of value, start lower with El Dorado and work your way up is the tip I keep hearing from a lot of people. A lotta people recommend the 12 and 15. I was not disappointed with the 21 and would buy again as long as the price was right.

I will give it a 9 on the basis that I think a lot of people don't get that it is what it wants to be (a smooth as f#%k spiced rum and not a Ron Zacapa or Appleton's Estate).

Ароматный, не крепкий, средней сладости ром. Длинное послевкусие, шоколад, пряные ноты, орех, патока

Smagt på Romhattens romsmagning i Århus august 2020. Har bare altid været skuffet over El Dorado ift hvad mine forventninger har været og andres vurderinger.

Jeg smagte denne rom til Romhattens romfestival 2020. Jeg havde forventet mig mere af denne rom. Den var ret skuffende.

We loved this, what little we had. We got a dram of it (can't really afford much more than that), and tasted it alongside the 5, 12 and 15 year old expressions. The 15 year old was really the sweet spot of flavor... the 21 lost some of the more interesting notes, but retained just a bit of the dried fruit; I likened it more to prune than sour cherry, but either way, it has that tiny bit of pucker still left, and almost all of the sugar gone. Going from the 5 to the 21 was shocking, but from 12 to 15 to 21 you can definitely see the progression. For our money, we'll keep the 12 in stock with the 15 as a special buy, but this one is probably not going to be on our shelf unless we hit the numbers.

It's not my favourite only because I don't feel emotionally attached to it, but the rum hardly get better than this... I usually only drink rum neat but sometimes this one I like to drink with pineapple juice and ice even though is such a shame to use it as mixer it's even the best in my opinion for pineapple/rum mixing...

Nez : Mélasse, caramel et fruits rôtis.
Bouche : Puissance et rondeur, intensité et finesse. Boisé, fumé et caramel.
Finale : Longue avec un côté salé.

The nose is more reserved that I expected but it still a very nice integration of wood and spice. The palate has sweetness but not as much some reviews suggest, imo. There’s a lovely and harmonious integration of wood, molasses, and spice on the palate. The finish reminds me of molasses cookies. I do agree with others that the ED 15 year old seems to outshine this older expression. The 15 is more “in your face” in both the nose and palate. The same conclusion can be reached when tasting various single malt whiskies too - older isn’t always better for a given distillery. That being said, this is a very fine, serious sipping rum that you can’t go wrong serving to others.