Appleton Estate Rare Blend 12-Year

Niet te zoete rum die prima puur te drinken is. Niet duur voor de kwaliteit.

This is a simple Jamaican rum. Nice introductory rum as well. Not too sweet. But sweeter than other rums from Barbados. It is smooth, however I cannot drink this one neat. I prefer this in a rum old fashioned omitting simple syrup. Has a bit of bite at the end as well.

Very nice and smooth rum. Has a distinctive flavor and goes nice into scuba libre

Enjoyable on its own or with your favorite mix. Highly recommend!

Well balanced, expected smoother for a 12 year old, but definitely great for mixing

Very enjoyable meeting with a real 12 yo. I strongly recommend for sipping, however I feel that true appreciation of this spirit is still ahead of me - it's not a rum for regular beginners, definitely.

Mild funk on the nose won’t scare off anyone. Otherwise a very nice nose of molasses, banana, wood, spice, and faint note reminding me of Playdough. The palate, it’s smooth, balanced, with sweet wood providing a framework on which one detects some more banana, molasses and brown sugar as prominent flavours. This rum is definitely dry, not sweet. A lovely sipping rum. Excellent price to quality ratio.

Aroma is quite funky with ripe banana and vanilla

Taste has less funk than you’d expect from the aroma but still has a little bit in there. Buttery brown sugar and very smooth.

Great as a sipper and makes a decent daiquri but not really one to use in cocktail. Very nice indeed

Jamaican style.
Nose: fermented fruits,
I don‘t like the smell at all.
Palate: not very aromatic,
similar to Stroh-Rum. But pretty well balanced.

My wife and I got married in Montego. I bought this one for the first time at the duty free in the airport there. Absolutely loved it. It's dark and complex with alot of the Jamaican funk. One of those bottles I find my self going back to alot when I'm in the store. It's an all around outstanding sipper.