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El Dorado Special Reserve 15-Year rum is crafted from 15 to 25 year old rums that are then blended and married together in bourbon oak casks. Prior to blending the original batches are distilled using 4 unique stills - the Enmore and Diamond Coffey stills, the Port Mourant double wooden pot still, and the Versailles single wooden pot still.
The bottle of El Dorado Special Reserve 15-year was inspired by the the old hand-blown flasks used by sugar planters on the banks of the Demerara river.
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Opened the bottle today and I am very impressed. Just the nose is already great. No alcoholic smell at all. When tasting, it starts with the sweetness of rum without the feeling that sugars have been added. This followed by a hint of oak and cognac - finished by the good warm feeling delivered by the alcohol. Love it!
This probably the best rum available in the $40-$50 class. A go-to favorite for sipping.
This is a way over priced rum, whiskey, rum, whiskey...let's just call it a rum that wants to be a whiskey but also has sugar added to try to make it taste more like rum than whiskey.
This is a busy little spirit with a variety of heavy fruit flavors which leads me to my next point: It goes well with a frozen drink or with Coke but its not a sipper. And, $50 a bottle for a mixer is just pain silly!
Yes, I'm biased in my review. I just don't think El Dorado makes a real premium rum and the added sugar to an agricole is shameful. Still, this is a good mixer that would be more appropriately priced in the low $30 range (NY prices).
Voici un rhum d'une très grande qualité, qui m'a vraiment enthousiasmé! Le nez promet des arômes que la bouche confirme: une délicieuse douceur vanillée, des notes de noix, de dates et de fruits secs. La longueur en bouche est très bonne, laissant au palais tout le temps d'apprécier la complexité des arômes délivrés. C'est vraiment l'exemple-type de rhum vieux parfaitement équilibré et balancé! Une réussite totale!
Nice rum to have straight up. Nice balanced flavors
dans la lignée du 12 mais plus sur l alcool.(évidemment ) les mêmes arômes . Un grand plaisir à goûter .toujours cette sensation de douceur, d épices . Facile à boire .
I am relatively new to higher quality rums but this one blew all my other forays out of the water. I would attempt to describe it but my palate is still somewhat lacking.
I've just received a mini bottle of this rum from RumRatings, so that I had the chance of tasting it: I liked it indeed :) !
The colour is a copper red gold.
The aroma has notes of caramel and banana. There are some notes of wood also but fairly discreet.
Oak flavors are predominant on the palate but the rum remain sweet and very pleasant.
Edit April 25, 2014: Now that I've been able to compare this rum with its older brother 21 yo, I can say that this rum is my favorite one. Note raised to 10.
Un excellent rum. La longueur en bouche est superbe.
Nice amber color, has good caramel and vanilla tones. Taste has the pleasant bite a whiskey drinker will enjoy, with a pleasing mouth feel and finish. Not overly sweet like many rums. Very enjoyable sipping rum for those who enjoy quality bourbons and scotches.
Full nose packed with dark coffee, candied orange, almonds, dark chocolate...
"El Dorado Special Reserve 15-Year rum review by Mike at Ultimate Rum Guide"
Has more oak and chocolate notes.
"It is initially very sweet, apples, bananas and rum soaked raisins but there are also some bittersweet plum like notes. The finish is spicy and fruity and long lasting."
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This is good stuff. if you like the 12 year old, you are almost certain to appreciate this - and vice versa. Which is better...hmm...well, it really does depend on your tatse buds. They are probably roughly equally as good, but I presonally prefer the 12 year old. This has a sort of background bourbon or cognac element to it, which is interesting but at the expense of the overwhelming rummyness of the 12 year old. The 12 year old, for me is one of the rummyest of rums - by that I mean it tastes almost exactly what I expect good rum to be in my mind's eye. This one is not hugely different, but it gains some flavours whilst loosing the edge in the others. It has all the nose of the 12 year old plus a little furniture polish and extra oak.
I like the big boldness of the 12, the in-your-face rum kick, slight burn on swallow and back of the mouth heat after swallowing it. This one loses half of that, but gains a slight amount of complexity and a bit of oak - I'm not sure it's worth it and I don't want to pay an extra £5 for something that I don't think improves on the 12.
Nevertheless, there's no doubt that this is very fine - and I would not argue with those who do prefer it to the 12 year old - I think it would be a roughly 50-50 call amongst rum drinkers.