El Dorado 12-Year

Very smooth in the glass, smell of organge and citrus. The taste is sweet but not to sweet. This was my fisrt El Dorado, but i will defenitly try the 15 and 21 also.

The smell is relative neutral and does not have the strong caramel smell of the 3-8 year. A great taste with a nice smooth finish and pleasant long after taste.

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Einer meiner ersten Premium-Rums und er begeistert nach wie vor bei jedem Schluck.

A tasty rum, however I seem to get a bit of a headache after enjoying it.

Smooth with a bit of a hard aftertaste, good for sipping, better with a splash of coke to bring out more of the flavor

Good color with depth. Sweet, not like diplomatico, but enjoyble.

Let's see what the 12y ElD delivers in comparison to 15 and 21.
I get sweet and fruity notes in the nose. Caramel, raisins, figs, also some banana first, cocoa. Not bad, typical Enmore style.
But there is no honey or papaya that I like in the MDXC mark. This is a different rum to ELD15, from different stills. But also very good, it makes sence to the product range.

The taste is almost the same, caramel, burned sugar and raisins. After that cocoa and oak.
The finish is middle long with raisins and earth notes from the cask.
Not very complex or spicy taste, just pleasant and sweet.
Overall not bad, reminds me a little bit of Diplomatico RE (raisins and caramel are in both rums). Would rate it with 78 points because the taste is not very complex and only 40% sadly.

Smell: caramel, raisins, fig, ripe banana, wood, cocoa
Taste initial/middle: caramel, burned sugar, dried fruit, cocoa, raisins, young oak with vanilla
Finish: some spice, raisins, wet cask and earth, burned sugar again

Sweetness: 3/5
Fruits: 3/5
Spice: 2/5
Mildness: 3.5/5
Complexity: 2.5/5
Value (28€): 4/5

Understandable that people love this. It is easy to sip and has a nice flavour buried under all the sweetness. More of a delicious rum liqueur than a true rum.

Put it this way: When I make an old fashioned with it, I omit the sugar.

This is definitely a dosage bottle but I'd say 15 > 21 > 12. I sip it or occasionally use in a cocktail