Centenario 5-Year

If you are building a rum critic's vocabulary, Ron Centenario 5-year is a good place to start. That's because it is difficult to find any flavor to comment upon, apart from the flowery sugar note with a hint of ginger. Finding more than blandness to comment upon suggests that you have a nose for reviewing. This rum mixes well with lime juice and salt, yech!

The color should have been an indicator from the start. Very light and lacking color. Smell was ok but very harsh and lacking flavor. Maybe good for mixing, not neat.

First rum what I tried In Costa Rica and it's...disappointment. It's not even standard taste of OK rum. You can just with coke.

I bought this in a set with 4 20cl bottles of the 5yo, 7yo, 9yo and the 12yo Centenarios. I feel too insulted by this rum to really try and get all the flavours right. There is a very light nose that has some vague notes of rum in here, not really bad but hardly existing. Easy drinkable because of the added sugar (or in this case; artificial sweeteners?) but nothing interesting going on. Cheap rum for alcohol lovers who don't really care what they drink. I wouldn't want this for free to be honest. Too much sweeteners added to take this serious but not enough to take away the sharp edge.