El Dorado 21-Year

I really like this one but the price is prohibitive. It smells and tastes like oak and the smoothness is crazy good.

Having already tasted the 3, 5, 12 and 15 (somehow forgot to taste the 8), it is only natural to move on to the next in line from the main El Dorado line-up

Nose: Tobacco, brown sugar, cinnamon, toffee and wood
Taste: Smoked wood, coffee, raisin, vanilla and dates with a flavorful, but a little to short aftertaste
Overall: This rum is clearly a step up from its brothers. It packs a lot more flavor into the glass, so if you are into the Demerara-rums, then this should be right up your alley. For me it is a really good glass of rum and with a longer aftertaste and maybe a slightly higher ABV it would get a better mark, but a great bang for your buck

I've only got a few real favorites, this one is like #2 for me. The price and the quality together make this one an all around true favorite.

Doesn't wrench tears when I pay for it, it looks great and smells great. It's a sweeter rum but not syrupy or artifical. Nice molasses and spice flavor and smell. There's some kind of hint of fruit to it but can't quite put my finger on it. One of the few rums that actually smell and tastes exactly the same.

I'll buy this one again at just under 60. Legit and real deal. Great stuff for real.

This review is for a bottle produced in 2012. It tasted like liquid raisins very sweet. Tastes like sweet marsalla to me more than anything. Better off picking up a bottle of that for 5 or 10 bucks.

Really impressive! Strong smell of oak, after that o coffee flavour and aftertaste is vanilla.
A classic recipe baut this is almost perfectly done!
Just a little bit more alcohol for the first stroke. But insignificant as a total.

Smoother and softer than the 15. Fun to taste, as flavors seem to reveal themselves with every sip.

Bon rhum de dégustation, j'ai goûté à mieux pour moins chers.

I expected this to be a mature version of the 12 or 15 but strangely it had a completely different profile. It had more of a fruit taste with hints of earthiness. It’s profile was closer to rye than rum.

I just cracked it open so I hope to post a better 2nd review.

The first time I tried this was with a good friend and we were puzzled by a specific element in the aroma and palate in this rum. After a few tries, we determined that it was the tobacco. El Dorado 21 had a very distinct tobacco element that I never experienced on other runs like Zacapa XO, or Appleton Estate 21. Overall, this is a great rum. Superb aroma, dark chocolate and tobacco.

Very good taste. .